Hello all,

Running TSM 4.2.1.9 on a SUN E6000 with Solaris 8 in 64-bits mode.
We run Veritas Volume Manager and File System  as a Disk Mgr.

We have two options for our TSM DB and LOG

        a)  Use RAW partitions (Vertias VM partitions)
        b)  Use File Systems (Veritas FS)

FYI Our DB is about 20 GB in Size and Our LOG 1 GB

I believe that the benefit of using RAW partitions is that it is faster ( NO
FS overhead)
The down side is that we are then unable to use the Unix Filesystem caching
in RAM.

I would like to know which is the best solution (speed and reliability).



Bruce E. Lowrie
Sr. Systems Analyst
Information Technology Services
Storage, Output, Legacy
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