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Re: Max size for a disk volume

2004-01-29 22:41:08
Subject: Re: Max size for a disk volume
From: "French, Michael" <Michael.French AT SAVVIS DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:39:43 -0600
The disks are under Veritas control.  I made a single concantenated volume on 1 
73GB disk, filling the whole disk.  My DB and Log volumes were created the same 
way, except they are not taking up the whole disk, but rather 1/4 of each 36GB 
disk, 2 volumes per disk, no problems adding all of them.  All of my other 
servers are setup the same way, but none of them have disk volumes nearly as 
large.  I will try creating a striped volume of the same size and try adding it 
tomorrow to see how it works.

Michael French

-----Original Message-----
From:   ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims
Sent:   Thu 1/29/2004 7:37 PM
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Subject:        Re: Max size for a disk volume
>        Does anyone know if there is a max size that you can make a disk
>volume?  I am setting up a new server and using 73GB disks for the
>storage pool.  I tried to add a RAW volume of this size and after
>several minutes, I got an error stating:
>
>tsm: TSM3.USWASH6>def vol backuppool /dev/vx/rdsk/tsmdg/tsmdata1
>ANR2027E DEFINE VOLUME: Command failed - sufficient server recovery log
>space is not available.

Michael - The factor which may be causing this odd error, may involve
          what is not in your posting: how the raw partition was prepared.
I'm wondering whether it was formatted according to the Admin Guide
instructions: if not, some conflict with cylinder 0 may be inciting the
error.  Beyond that, I'm not aware of a size limit on stgpool volumes.
(Given the size of tapes these days, I would not expect disk sizes to be
an issue.)

   Richard Sims, http://people.bu.edu/rbs

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