Hi Allen,
This is quite impressive. I will discuss it with the client admin.
Thank you,
Keith
On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 03:26 PM, Arbogast, Warren K wrote:
>
>> There are 4500+ directories under /ip, so virtualmountpoints aren't
>> workable either.
>
> ... Why? It's not hard, it's just big.
>
> Envision this:
>
> find /ip -maxdepth 1 -type d | awk '{ print "virtualmountpoint ",$1}'
> > /var/tmp/dsm.sys.vmp
>
> cat /var/tmp/dsm.sys.the_rest_of_my_stuff /var/tmp/dsm.sys.vmp >
> /[...]path/dsm.sys
>
> Rejigger that for however you maintain your configuration data; but the key
> point is that you can mechanically produce the list of VMPs, and separate
> them from the maintenance of the rest of your TSM config.
>
> You're not going to thrash the TSM server by making 4500 mountpoints, you'll
> just make your list of filespaces be REALLY LONG.
>
> If your files are fairly evenly divided between these first-level dirs, then
> you've turned a 21M file problem into a thousand file problem, which is to
> say "No problem".
>
> ... Just don't collocate by filespace. :)
>
> - Allen S. Rout
>
