Hi Folks,

First of all, happy new year to all of you !

I do experience a strange behavior with container based storage pools, which I 
would like to share with you. Basically it's all about wasted space in 
directory pools, which I would like to reclaim  :


1)     I do search for some container having "max size"="free space", so 
basically an empty container ...


Protect: CH2LX770>q container 
/tsm/IsilonCOLO/sf/sfisi/StrgPool-3/vm/15/01/00000000000115aa.dcf f=d

                Container: 
/tsm/IsilonCOLO/sf/sfisi/StrgPool-3/vm/15/01/00000000-
                            000115aa.dcf
        Storage Pool Name: DIR_VM
           Container Type: Dedup
                    State: Available
           Free Space(MB): 10,323
         Maximum Size(MB): 10,323
Approx. Date Last Written: 08/25/2018 01:30:54
  Approx. Date Last Audit:
               Cloud Type:
                Cloud URL:
   Cloud Object Size (MB):
      Space Utilized (MB):
        Data Extent Count:


2)     I then start a "move container", using the "defrag=yes" option :


Protect: CH2LX770>move container 
/tsm/IsilonCOLO/sf/sfisi/StrgPool-3/vm/15/01/00000000000115aa.dcf defrag=yes
ANR0984I Process 15195 for Move Container started in the BACKGROUND at 11:44:42
AM.


3)      This is what the activity log reports :


Date/Time              Message
--------------------   
----------------------------------------------------------
01/10/2019 11:44:42    ANR0984I Process 15195 for Move Container started in the
                        BACKGROUND at 11:44:42 AM. (SESSION: 339756, PROCESS:
                        15195)
01/10/2019 11:45:27    ANR0986I Process 15195 for Move Container running in the
                        BACKGROUND processed 42,742 items for a total of
                        1,695,019,008 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS
                        at 11:45:27 AM. (SESSION: 339756, PROCESS: 15195)


So basically a container reported as being empty is not in reality ? Shall I 
assume that this is a  bug ?
BTW, spectrum protect server 8.1.4 running on PowerLinux.

Cheers.

Arnaud

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