vegivamp
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Hullo ladies, gents and enby friends,
I'm wondering how people handle LTO9 intialization
I'm aware that IBM has recently added some verbs for it to ITDT, and iirc the IBM TS libraries have the option in the interface as well, but those of us with other vendors are screwed, right? Not to mention that intiialization outside of TSM is going to get in the way of TSM operations...
I've already played with LABEL LIBVOLUME, and that does actually work - I was afraid it'd timeout, but it doesn't. However, it's limited to a single thread, and the label command gets in the way of any checkin, checkout or move drm operations; even on other libraries than the one the label is running on.
AUTOLABEL on storagepools isn't really an option, because it means that every time a new scratch tape is loaded, the write operation hangs for an hour while the volume intitializes.
You'd think that three years after the release of LTO9, vendors (and IBM/TSM in particular!) would have caught up...
/Johan
I'm wondering how people handle LTO9 intialization
I'm aware that IBM has recently added some verbs for it to ITDT, and iirc the IBM TS libraries have the option in the interface as well, but those of us with other vendors are screwed, right? Not to mention that intiialization outside of TSM is going to get in the way of TSM operations...
I've already played with LABEL LIBVOLUME, and that does actually work - I was afraid it'd timeout, but it doesn't. However, it's limited to a single thread, and the label command gets in the way of any checkin, checkout or move drm operations; even on other libraries than the one the label is running on.
AUTOLABEL on storagepools isn't really an option, because it means that every time a new scratch tape is loaded, the write operation hangs for an hour while the volume intitializes.
You'd think that three years after the release of LTO9, vendors (and IBM/TSM in particular!) would have caught up...
/Johan