Speaking of 6.2.3,  I just noticed a 6.2.3.100 patch but none of the links
in the README.htm file work.  Anyone have the list of "what is fixed" for
this patch?

Zoltan Forray
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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From:   Hans Christian Riksheim <bullhcr AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:   11/02/2011 09:49 AM
Subject:        Re: [ADSM-L] When hours become seconds
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



Yes, this was finally fixed for the UNIX platforms in 6.2.3.

This update was released just in time for me when I had to format 40
TB of disk/file on a new server. Would have taken a week otherwise.

I guess it does the same as on the windows platform so no need to
write zeros on all blocks on unix anymore.

Hans Chr.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT vcu DOT edu>
wrote:
> I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes
on
> a Linux server.
>
> In the past, when creating and formatting storage pool volumes, a 300GB
> volume would normally take an hour or more. I could watch the space
being
> allocated, piece-by-piece until it reached 300GB and then wait for the
> formatting to complete. This process was usually so resource intensive
> (never understood why???) doing something like an LS would take many
> seconds to respond.
>
> Yesterday, I had a need to create new volumes on a recently rebuilt
server
> - RH Linux 5.6 and TSM server 6.2.3.0.
>
> Imagine my surprise when a 300GB volume was created in 2-seconds!
> Furthermore, I create 9-300GB volumes as fast as I could enter the
> commands!
>
> I thought for sure there was some kind of problem but all the error logs
I
> checked were clean.  I figured if I started using them they would start
> registering errors but nothing happened!  Everything seems to be working
> just fine.
>
> So, what gives?
>
> Is there some dramatic change in 6.2.3.0 (this is my first server
upgraded
> to this level) effecting the behavior of creating disk storage pool
> volumes?  It can't be the hardware since this is a 3+ year old machine.
 I
> have newer, bigger, beefier, faster servers that still take a long time
to
> format storage volumes?
>
>
> Zoltan Forray
> TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> UCC/Office of Technology Services
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