ANR7860W - plenty of space free!?

[tenpin]

ANR7860W showing when trying to create an additional storage pool volume on with file devclass... Problem is that this message indicates that I don't have any room left on the device - but I have 16TB available:

XXXXXX01 03/11/08 "22:45:56" # df -g /tsm/xxxxx01/data01
Filesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/stglv01 22785.00 16638.22 27% 28 1% /tsm/xxxxx01/data01

tsm: xxxxx01>define volume diskpool1 /tsm/xxxxx01/data01/datavol025 formatsize=262114 wait=y
ANR0984I Process 38 for DEFINE VOLUME started in the FOREGROUND at 22:48:03.
ANR7860W Insufficient Space Available for file /tsm/xxxxx01/data01/datavol025.
ANR0985I Process 38 for DEFINE VOLUME running in the FOREGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 22:48:03.
ANS8001I Return code 14.

tsm: xxxxx01>q devclass diskpool1 f=d

Device Class Name: DISKPOOL1
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 1
Device Type: FILE
Format: DRIVE
Est/Max Capacity (MB): 524,288.0
Mount Limit: 40
Mount Wait (min):
Mount Retention (min):
Label Prefix:
Library:
Directory: /tsm/xxxxx01/data01
Server Name:
Retry Period:
Retry Interval:
Shared:
High-level Address:
Minimum Capacity:
WORM: No
Drive Encryption:
Scaled Capacity:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
Last Update Date/Time: 03/11/08 15:09:50

24 volumes were created successfully using a batch file and when the batch file reached this it errors out - and as shown above its also error'ing out on the command line, AIX 5307 & tsm 5.5.0 Any ideas?

 

[Harry_Redl]

Hi,

first thing - I am not an AIX person - so maybe I am completely wrong

24x256GB is round number in computer world - so it seems to me there may be some filesystem limitation there. I found on Google that there is (or atleast was ) such for JFS2 and files larger 6TB. I know you have multiple files, but anyhow ... 6TB ...
Can you create another file in this folder under AIX? Can you create TSM volume in another directory in this filesystem?

Try to check this (so others have more info to help you )

Harry

 

[tenpin]

I was able to create a 256gb file using dd:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.file bs=1m count=262114
in the same location, so this seems to be a TSM issue, not a filesystem issue.

 

[tenpin]

I was actually able to overcome this problem using 'dsmfmt' and then 'define volume'. I will file a bug with tsm software support for this issue.