Daniel.

I have HSM experiences from both mainframe (DFSMShsm) and AIX (Tivoli Space 
Manager).
On well handled data structures HSM is very good.

But one of the main reasons for my TSM archive routine is to clean
up the directory structure from a great number of files, not only 
to store cheap. 
Also, I certainly don't want to handle HSM on 175 file servers. 
I have still not found an HSM product that meets my requirement 
for a large Netware file server production environment and that 
includes your suggestion.

The reason for sending in my question was not primarily to discuss 
the reason for why I like to do TSM archiving or why I shouldn't do it.
Because it's not only a matter of TSM I suggest we lift that 
discussion out of this forum. You know my mail id.

   /Lars 
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