Hello,

Was reading man page for mminfo and I'm not clear on the difference
between query constraints: 'sscreate' versus 'ssinsert'. Was playing
around and noticed output always seemed to be identical for these. I
then decided to check the whole database as:

mminfo -av -r 'client,name,ssid,sscreate(20)' > /tmp/a; mminfo -av -r
'client,name,ssid,ssinsert(20)' > /tmp/b; diff --side-by-side
--suppress-common-lines -W 154 /tmp/a /tmp/b

Noticed 368 differences. The difference is always between the times, and
they are drastically and disturbingly different!!! However, 239 of these
are indexes, and 4 are bootstraps, but the remaining 65 are not. Some
sample output follows. Why on earth would the differences be so drastic?
I actually expected there to be more differences but was not prepared
for such discrepancies. I then reran the command and included the level,
and many of the indexes are level fulls, but there are a lot of level 9
and some level 5, too. Also noticed many of the regular savesets are
also a mixture of fulls, incrementals and level 5. The bootstraps were
either 9 or full. I can see maybe with the indexes and bootstraps that
some differences of several days, week maybe or month would be expected,
but can't explain months or even a year for some of the regular file
systems like /dev/pts for client6. I removed spacing from output to
avoid wrapping for email.

Would appreciate any advice or possible explanations.

George

<<< sample output >>>
client name  ssid  ss created | client name  ssid  ss inserted
client1 / 748484097 01/20/03 20:05:58 | client1 / 748484097 09/23/03
11:19:52
client1 /home 752549891 01/21/03 00:30:40 | client1 /home 752549891
09/23/03 11:19:52
server /disk2/nsr/index/client2 259767 02/21/01 21:55:51 | server
/disk2/nsr/index/client2 259767 04/05/01 11:58:36
server /disk2/nsr/index/client3 259759 02/21/01 21:45:37 | server
/disk2/nsr/index/client3 259759 04/05/01 11:58:36
server /disk2/nsr/index/client4 259880 02/22/01 01:40:18 | server
/disk2/nsr/index/client4 259880 04/05/01 11:58:36
client5 / 261928 03/01/01 20:01:38 | client5 / 261928  04/05/01 13:46:53
client5 /disk2 261919 03/01/01 20:00:30 | client5 /disk2 261919 04/05/01
13:46:53
server bootstrap 268466 03/28/01 05:01:54 | server bootstrap 268466
04/05/01 11:58:36
server bootstrap 270140 04/02/01 11:10:58 | server bootstrap 270140
04/05/01 11:58:36
client6 /dev/pts 3759595009 11/23/02 19:01:34 | client6 /dev/pts
3759595009 09/23/03 11:19:52
client6 / 3760027651 11/23/02 19:29:44 | client6 / 3760027651 09/23/03
11:19:52
client6 /home 3760027650 11/23/02 19:29:44 | client6 /home 3760027650
09/23/03 11:19:52

George

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