... >After all that, the reclamation is going at a better rate. I think it is >because the one 1GB disk volume containing all of the directory objects >was just too resource intensive to scan. The 10MB volumes are much faster >to scan through. Personally, it doesn't make sense that a random access >volume would have that much trouble finding the file, but I had read other >posts with problems similar to mine, so I made those changes.
Todd - I believe that the major problem is that, with long-lived small data in Disk type storage pools that fragmentation over time makes for a lot of extra overhead - just gets worse and worse. It's not something one would expect, living daily with OS file systems which do just fine with many, many files. It may be that non-hierarchical organization is at play, making for performance issues when the stgpool gets "holey" over time. Richard Sims, BU