Hi Mitch: Thanks for the info. That is a neat solution. However as I understand it ext2 is a 32 bit filesystem. This means it can hold individual files that are at most 2GB in size and it can hold at most 2 to the 32 less individual files. What if you have a TSM database that is over 2GB in size? Could one acommplish what you are suggesting; i.e., limiting the number of inodes, on a journalled file system like ext3, jfs, xfs or reiserfs? Finally why is a journaled filesystem that is getting a large number of writes to it not a good choice for TSM?
best regards, west suhanic
