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Filesystem support in AIX 7.2 live kernel update

1430-047 The file system /mnt of type automount is not supported. We check your vfs type and as you can see from your filesystem output from your snap, those are automounts and are not set to nfs. node mounted mounted over vfs date options -------...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Filesystem fragmentation cause slow performance

Bosch copied several files from directory A to B or C or D. In the target filesystem the data is heavily fragmented which has a negativ impact on the performance (especially TSM). Bosch opened a PMR and the recommendation from the lab was to delet...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

File size has zero byte after a crash and reboot

The client BOSCH has the problem, that after a crash and the following reboot some files have a size of only 0 bytes. It happens if the root cause for the crash is within a filesystem, but can also happen with other filesystems. Sometimes the cras...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

AIX file defragmentation

AIX file fragmentation reduces the performance and the only way to recover is to backup and restore the data.Defrags command does not defragment files and is not helpful in this situation.
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

empty blocks copied with mklvcopy and migratepv

Empty blocks copied when using mklvcopy, migratepv, mirrorvg
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX support of Drepper SHA512

Submitted on behalf of Adam Moore - UNIX Security Engineering AIX currently supports the use of an SHA512 based password encryption algorithm for the storage of user passwords using a proprietary algorithm based on PKCS #5 v2.1 based encryption st...
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

errpt in Secure by Default SBD

we installed AIX 7.1 in "Secure by default" mode. We noticed that errpt command is not present after SbD installation. We know it can be added by installing "bos.sysmgt.serv_aid" fileset butwe wonder if "errpt" should not be the part of standard S...
over 8 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

Prevent a duplicate PVID from being added to a VG

As can be read in PMR 14682,211,788 the system of our customer had created a PVID (which is a very low chance to happen). That disk was being added to the volume group which caused the failover-node to crash. In some cases extendvg does not preven...
over 8 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Dynamic Partition Name Changes in AIX

Hi IBM, Is it possible to get AIX to dynamically update the LPAR Partition Name as displayed in the lpstat -i output if the LPAR name has been changed on the HMC?
over 8 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

Exposed libptools library interfaces for customer use

1. Symbol lookups, with all appropriate relocations considered, based on recorded artifacts: for example, gensyms, genld -l and process listing data. I can do this now with a pure Perl implementation I wrote, but that implementation is slow compar...
over 8 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered