Re: <Start Disk Reorganization> questions

I have never run the command.  I use the STRASPBAL command, and am a happy
camper.

Al

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Howdy,

I had not heard of this command on the iSeries and I agree that it has
questionable value compared to the load balancing that the system does,
but what the heck, it's saturday so I ran it <vbg>

We have a small 170 with 8gx9 RAIDed where drive 1 is at 27% and all the
others were at 13.x%, after running STRDSKRGZ drive 1 is still 27%,
drive 4 is now 5.5% and all others are at 14.6%.

What is going to happen (I think) is that this coming week all new
activity will be written to drive 5 until it reaches the same 14.6% as
the others so I have in effect created a disk arm bottle neck!

Oops,
J. Kilgore



Al Barsa wrote:
>
> STRDSKRGZ will not do what you want.  What it does is essentially
"defrags"
> your disks.  Sounds worthless to me, as I have heard that it apparently
did
> to IBM, but customers kept asking for it, so IBM provided it.  "Always
keep
> the customer satisfied."
>

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