That Eric is me! Just kidding, a long time ago someone from IBM told me Eric was the name of the son of one of the first ADSM developers. Kind regards, Eric van Loon
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: woensdag 2 november 2011 14:42 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: When hours become seconds On 11/02/2011 08:49 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > I had an odd situation occur involving formatting disk storage volumes on > a Linux server. [...] > > So, what gives? > > Is there some dramatic change in 6.2.3.0 (this is my first server > upgraded to this level) effecting the behavior of creating disk > storage pool volumes? It can't be the hardware since this is a 3+ > year old machine. I have newer, bigger, beefier, faster servers > that still take a long time to format storage volumes? I know that for a long time (back to ADSM v2, at least), volumes were formatted, and _populated_ with 'Eric'. EricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEricEric EricEric I have often wondered who Eric was. :) This would require that every byte of that 300G get shoved down the SAN pipe, and get committed to disk. Kind of the opposite of thin allocation. This kills the cache. If they are dealing with that in some different way... - Allen S. Rout ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************