If you are using AIX you can gain pretty much the same defragmentation
advantage, however slight it might be, by using the built in filesystem
defragment on AX 4.x and above:
smit:
System Storage Management (Physical & Logical Storage)
File Systems
Add / Change / Show / Delete File Systems
Journaled File Systems
Defragment a Journaled File System
I haven't heard of anyone doing what you are describing in many a year.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone out there still do this (if you ever have)?
Take a backup of the file systems (in our case, AIX UNIX), format the disks
clean, then restore the data back down to lay it back contiguous.
Are there any (noticeable) I/O advantages to doing this for a UniVerse
database on today's servers? Provided our files are properly sized, of
course.
Our Systems guys are itching to do this.
Thanks,
Gary P. Canedy
Database Analyst
ProMutual Group
(617) 757-6775
-----------------------------------------------------------
This email and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the
person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential
and/or privileged material. If you received this email in error, please
contact the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. If
you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute,
print, or copy the email, or take any action in reliance on its contents.
-------
u2-users mailing list
[email protected]
To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
-------
u2-users mailing list
[email protected]
To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
