On 08/07/2012 03:26 PM, Arbogast, Warren K wrote:

There are 4500+ directories under /ip, so virtualmountpoints aren't
workable either.

... Why?  It's not hard, it's just big.

Envision this:

find /ip -maxdepth 1 -type d   | awk '{ print  "virtualmountpoint ",$1}'
> /var/tmp/dsm.sys.vmp

cat /var/tmp/dsm.sys.the_rest_of_my_stuff /var/tmp/dsm.sys.vmp >
/[...]path/dsm.sys

Rejigger that for however you maintain your configuration data;  but the
key point is that you can mechanically produce the list of VMPs, and
separate them from the maintenance of the rest of your TSM config.

You're not going to thrash the TSM server by making 4500 mountpoints,
you'll just make your list of filespaces be REALLY LONG.

If your files are fairly evenly divided between these first-level dirs,
then you've turned a 21M file problem into a thousand file problem,
which is to say "No problem".

... Just don't collocate by filespace. :)

- Allen S. Rout