Richard,

As always, thanks for your words of reassurance.  In the last 14 years, I've 
totally removed maybe one SUN machine per year.  This one also got cited by my 
periodic unused FS scan.  It was unexpected.


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sims [rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 6:24 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Vanishing files

On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Fred Johanson wrote:

> There was nothing in the pools in question.  I'd never seen an
> empty filespace showing up in a query, especially with a high
> percentage used.

As noted in ADSM QuickFacts, the Pct Util value from Query Filespace
has nothing to do with TSM space: it is simply a recording of the
file system level when the TSM client last observed it.

A TSM filespace can remain after its contents have expired.  Also,
with Unix, a filespace can contain objects (directories, empty files,
and Special Files) which maintain a presence in the TSM database, but
not in storage pools.  You'd need to perform further queries to get
the whole story, of course.

    Richard Sims