We have given this a little bit of thought also.  You would not need to
use type=file - just enlarge your current disk pool.  Expire will age
the files out of there.  The only thing to watch, is for it to be
getting full, and more disk needs to be added.


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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Hokanson, Mark wrote:

> We are considering creating an extremely large TSM disk storage pool (IE:
> 1-10TB). The goal being to eliminate going to tape. Does anyone have any
> really BIG disk pools? Are there tools available for managing large TSM disk
> pools over time. (IE: Reclamation, Aging Data, etc) The documentation from
> Tivoli suggests that we need to set it up as a device type=FILE. What are
> the drawbacks using this approach? Is performance dramatically impacted?
> etc...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark Hokanson
> Thomson Legal & Regulatory
>