Re: Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
Keith, the difference is that you are using pre-defined volumes - which the doc says will be used in alphabetical order - see the worked example at the bottom of the technote (steps 1 - 8 ). The true round-robin across directories only works when using scratch volumes (that are auto-created

Re: Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-14 Thread Keith Arbogast
Ian, The Technote says, When predefining volumes, the Tivoli Storage Manager server will use all of the volumes in one directory before using the volumes in another directory. Here is the example: 7) Sort list of empty volumes alphabetically: List appears as c:\.BFS

Re: Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-12 Thread Arbogast, Warren K
Rick, I am just getting started with FILE deviceclass storage pools, so take the following with ample grains of salt. However, my experience contradicts swg21497567. Or, I might misunderstand that Technote. This is a TSM 6.2 RHEL5 server. The file deviceclass has fourteen 2 TB filesystems on

Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Rhodes
If you have a dev class of type FILE with multiple directories, how does TSM determine which dir to create a new volumes in? I've checked everywhere I can think of and the most I can find is comments that TSM is free to pick any dir to create a new scratch vol in. Assuming lots of free space

Re: Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-11 Thread Shawn Drew
@VM.MARIST.EDU 11/11/2011 03:00 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject [ADSM-L] Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories If you have a dev class of type FILE with multiple directories, how does TSM determine which dir to create a new volumes in? I've checked everywhere I

Re: Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Cowen
@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 3:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Dev Class type FILE with multiple directories If you have a dev class of type FILE with multiple directories, how does TSM determine which dir to create a new volumes