RE: Large volume file move

I appreciate the technical concerns. I've most definitely have to do some research.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Schoen [mailto:Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 3:06 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Large volume file move

Yes, definite sarcasm, but practical sarcasm because not embracing the right tool for the job "just because" could make one appear to be a luddite.

Even a Linux partition might be a better answer if they want the data to be in the same Chassis. However NFS would still be in order most likely.

We fought with the IFS for years and now recommend that any large volume IFS storage of small files goes to NAS or SAN because of the backup performance and object security issues imposed by IBM i.

Smaller volume users can probably stick with IFS successfully.

Maybe with iASP you can back it up as a blob, but nobody has confirmed this for me.

Had a customer once who was creating a new directory each month and a new user profile to own the objects because of an OS error they were getting capturing lots of docs to the IFS. I think the threshold was ~ 1 million IFS objects owned by a profile.

With NFS and NAS/SAN that painful PC file management issue goes away completely.

Anyway...

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com