2 possible causes: - there was some sort of I/O error which led device to be marked full (should be visible from logs) - nsrim did not put device back into appendable state (should be visible from logs)
Second one is known issue and if that would be your problem you will need to obtain patch from your support.
Where can find more information on the nsrim known issue? I didn't find anything in 7.3.3 release notes. I don't find anything in the log about the device changing status. Support suggested a default volume capacity and suggested I use advanced file type instead of file type. I prefer a file type device. I have re-labeled the device with a volume capacity defined. I see space recovered from the device, but nothing written to it with on ly 1 other writable device available. Any ideas?
12/25/07 01:10:00 nsrd: media info: Recovered 525 MB by deleting 4 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 12/26/07 01:03:40 nsrd: media info: Recovered 386 MB by deleting 6 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 12/27/07 01:59:48 nsrd: media info: Recovered 1708 MB by deleting 12 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 12/29/07 03:08:19 nsrd: media info: Recovered 27 GB by deleting 23 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 12/31/07 00:05:06 nsrd: media info: Recovered 11 GB by deleting 52 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 01/01/08 01:10:34 nsrd: media info: Recovered 77 MB by deleting 3 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 01/02/08 01:08:51 nsrd: media info: Recovered 1168 MB by deleting 5 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 01/03/08 01:56:43 nsrd: media info: Recovered 623 MB by deleting 8 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 01/05/08 02:58:10 nsrd: media info: Recovered 72 GB by deleting 133 savesets from device /nsrdata/6. 01/06/08 02:17:15 nsrd: media info: Recovered 140 GB by deleting 149 savesets from device /nsrdata/6.
With file device capacity defined will be used to determine max size of device. In your case that does not appear to be the problem. Have you checked log to see when device was marked full and if something strange has happened around that time?
I still suspect the issue I said before as that issue was known with file devices (exactly what you have). It is already fixed in 7.4.1.
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Posted November 13th, 2007 13:00
- there was some sort of I/O error which led device to be marked full (should be visible from logs)
- nsrim did not put device back into appendable state (should be visible from logs)
Second one is known issue and if that would be your problem you will need to obtain patch from your support.