Hi Mitch:

Thanks for the info. That is a neat solution. However as I understand it
ext2 is a 32 bit filesystem. This
means it can hold individual files that are at most 2GB in size and it can
hold at most 2 to the 32 less individual files. What if you have a TSM
database that is over 2GB in size? Could one acommplish
what you are suggesting; i.e., limiting the number of inodes, on a
journalled file system like ext3, jfs, xfs or
reiserfs? Finally why is a journaled filesystem that is getting a large
number of writes to it not a good
choice for TSM?

best regards,

west suhanic