On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 18:22 Europe/Amsterdam, Ochs, Duane wrote:

Does anyone know of or had problems with formatting additional space
for
diskpools ?

TSM server : AIX 5.1 ML3 64-bit enabled. 2GB memory 2 cpu H80

Disk type : 6 member raid set about 700 GB

JFS2

Trying to format 100gb diskpool. Each time I have tried it brings the
TSM
server to almost a stand still. TSM is up on the box but nothing is
running
during 8 hours of the format. Should be more than enough time to format
100gb of space.

Any ideas ?

possibly, you have a filesystem of lvm blocksize smaller than the
raid-strip size, this especially a problem with the ssa raid adpaters
(those suck big time IMNSHO) Using a huge blocksize helps....

Duane Ochs
Enterprise Computing

Quad/Graphics

Sussex, Wisconsin
414-566-2375 phone
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Duane.Ochs AT qg DOT com
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