Thanks to all for the suggestions. I am using OS mirroring because, as I
said originally, this is a data area, not log or database.
The doc ("The Advantages of Using Journal File System Files", page 385,
TSM Administrators Guide V5.1 GC32-0768-00) makes it clear that you can
get into trouble if yo
--> Dumb question, but why would you want OS mirroring when you have TSM do
the mirroring between two Raw LV's
Obviously TSM supports only DB & Log volumes mirroring. The mirroring of
the random access volumes should be done by hardware or at OS level.
Unless in some of the next versions LVM is us
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You could just format a bunch of 2G storage pool volumes. You know what
size they are and they format a lot faster.
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Yes, I am too easy to satisfy. That's because after
Hello
I use raw and TSM mirroring because I was told that idf I had a problem and
used OS mirroring TSM did not support that. If I wanted TSM support I would
need to do TSM mirroring. So make sure!
Mike
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From: Roger Deschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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You could just format a bunch of 2G storage pool volumes. You know what
size they are and they format a lot faster.
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Yes, I am too easy to satisfy. That's because after a weekend of
dsmfmt-ing, I'm declaring the thing BROKEN worse than before. I take
I too, have read the manual, and talked to TSM folk, about RAW vs. filesystem
usage. I must say, that because of ease, I have always used raw LV's and
never had a problem, and get very good performance.
If you are talking about AIX, OS mirroring takes place at the LV level, so
it is a piece of ca
