On 08/18/97 13:07:57 you wrote:
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>From:   Jagdish Damania
>Sent:   Monday, August 18, 1997 12:53 PM
>To:     [log in to unmask]
>Subject:        Disk Load Balancing. Moving files to New Disc.
>
>Some one had asked for how to move files to other disk for disk load
>balancing
>and here is the hint from MPEX.
>Hint: Balance the load on your discs -- move files around with %ALTFILE
>;DEV=.
>
>HTH
>Jagdish Damania
>
>___________________________________________________________
>Howdy,
>
>True MPEX ,or ADAGER in the case of IMAGE files, will move
>yer stuff around to different drives.  However these utilities will
>place the source file on a specific drive.  The whole file.  If you
>need to move data files from one disc to multiple discs you're
>outta luck.  As far as I know, I sure would not be bothered by
>being corrected.
>
>James (only thing worse than a winter cold is a summer cold) Trudeau
>
>

Hmm.  I thought you could specify ";DEV=DISC" in MPEX and it would scatter the file.  I could be
wrong, as I haven't analyzed the file after doing such a thing.

What *would* be a nice feature would be if you could specify drives to *exclude* when moving
files (in MPEX).  When I've had to exclude files from moving to certain drives, I would do a
VOLUTIL "ALTERVOL volset:memberx low% t%" first, move the files (DEV=DISC), and then set the
VOLUTIL percentages back.

Anybody have a better solution?

Garry Darrer - Senior Consultant, GSC & Assoc.
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