Duane, I don't have an answer for your problem, but I can tell you the same thing happens on solaris.
My main servers are using raw partitions as recommended and they scream. But to put up a test server I use space on filesystems. For a server to run decently the filesystem has to be mounted with 'forcedirectio,nologging' mount parameters. But strangely, the reverse is true for formatting. When I set up a test instance I have to unmount & remount the filesystem without forcedirectio,nologging. After the formatting is done I go back to forcedirectio,nologging to run the server. The other day I formatted 37G in about 10 minutes. Maybe aix has similar options. Hope this helps, Bill At 12:22 PM 9/3/2003, you 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 ? > >> Duane Ochs >> Enterprise Computing >> >> Quad/Graphics >> >> Sussex, Wisconsin >> 414-566-2375 phone >> 414-917-0736 beeper >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.QG.com >> >> ---------- Bill Colwell C. S. Draper Lab Cambridge Ma.
