RE: Logical logs on filesystem (VXFS)

Kill -15 on the pid -----Original Message----- From: Helmut Leininger [mailto:h.leininger@bull.at] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 6:44 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Logical logs on filesystem (VXFS) Bernard Bernard wrote: > I use a continous backup "ontape -c" on a filesystem and one time/day I do > an "ontape -s -L 0", to reduce the among of space used in the filesystem I > first kill the "ontape -c" process, copy the backup-logfile, compress it, > clear the original (with a ">" in Unix) and start "ontape -c" again. Before > I start again ontape, the file is zero bytes long, after start he takes the > original size again ! What's the reason of this ? Informix holds the size of > the file ? Is there some action to do before the restart of ontape How do you kill ontape -c ? If you do it by kill -9 ontape has no chance to perform ending operations. In this case you should use the break signal (kill -2). Are you sure nobody uses the file (fuser) when you make the ">" ? Is the size of your file system file the same as a logical log file? Then it could be just one logical log. Regards -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Open Systems Support Email: h.leininger@bull.at helmut.leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.