[ADSM-L] Solaris TSM Server and ZFS for raw partitions

Guys,



I'm scratching around trying to find out if TSM/ZFS play ball when it comes
to raw volumes for DB and Log volumes. The published IBM recommendation for
Solaris DB, Log and Stgpool volumes is still to use raw partitions for 5.5,
but I'm not seeing anything specific in the way of support for this on ZFS
being stated yet.



I do see from IBM.com that a customer has been having problems trying this
with an earlier release of TSM, but also that TSM fixpack 5.5.3 should fix
it (although I don't see anything in the APARs fixed list that it has).



http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019
<http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019&context=SSSQWC&context=SS
GSG7&q1=ZFS&uid=swg1IC59683&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en>
&context=SSSQWC&context=SSGSG7&q1=ZFS&uid=swg1IC59683&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lan
g=en



Is anyone else running with Solaris ZFS raw partitions? Or, does anyone have
an alternative view as to whether it's even worth using raw partitions on
ZFS filesystems for DB/Log?



TSM Server 5.5.3.0

Solaris 10, Sun Fire T2000

EMC DMX4 Disk



Cheers,



/David Mc

London, UK