Never done this myself (only used DAS for the disk/file pools), but FILE
would be my choice too. NFS is decent at sequential I/O (which FILE
guarantees) but is atrocious at random I/O.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:02:21AM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> We are working on a project to beef up offsite backups using an EMC Isilon
> box attached to a RHEL TSM server.
>
> Anybody doing this kind of configuration?  I have concerns since it will be
> connecting >300TB via NFS mount to use for the TSM storage. I am assuming
> it will be best to define the stgpool as a FILE format?

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