RE: massive document storage in the IFS - how to handle Mimix

This discussion jogged my memory this morning.

Several years back I recall we had a customer designate a couple of drives in an ASP just for documents storage.

In this scenario since it was ASP 2 we created a UDFS to manage the files.

I seem to recall they still had performance issues with IFS backups, but now I'm trying to remember if they were unmounting and backing up the UDFS or trying to back the original objects.

In their case they moved storage ultimately to using a SAN, but this could re-kindle the usage of UDFS for storing documents.

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date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:53:12 -0500
from: Dan Kimmel <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: massive document storage in the IFS - how to handle Mimix

I'm wondering if that ownership holds up when a UDFS is UNMOUNTed. Have to try it tomorrow. Good plan creating a dummy user and using WRKOBJOWN.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S Waterbury
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:30 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: massive document storage in the IFS - how to handle Mimix

Hi, Dan:

On WRKLNK, you can type an "8" next to a file or directory to see its attributes (including the owner).

I created a "test" user ID (CRTUSRPRF TEST) then I created a directory named "test" in QOpenSys, and changed its owner to TEST with CHGOWN.
Then I copied a stream file into that directory and changed its owner to TEST. Then I issued WRKOBJOWN TEST and there they were.

Mark

On 5/20/2013 6:11 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:
I just tried changing the management and existence properties in a UDFS and they may be changed on each file. So the doc must mean something different than how I read it.

Is there a way to see if the file is appended to the user profile other than scrolling through WRKOBJOWN one page at a time?

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Kimmel
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: massive document storage in the IFS - how to handle Mimix

Sorry. There's a link about halfway down the page to another page that talks about unix-like file systems not having those properties.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzamv/rzam
vifsrootfiles.htm

I see what you see in wrklnk, but I think those properties are inherited from the udfs definition or from the mounted-over link. Did you try changing them?