Description

If you remove an FSE medium from its FSE media pool without physically removing it from an

 

FSE library, then add it to whichever FSE media pool, and finally start an FSE administrative job

 

to format the medium, the job seems to be blocked before formatting actually begins.

Explanation

When an FSE administrative job commands the Resource Manager (RM) to allocate a

 

particular FSE medium, the RM cannot execute the allocation unless it knows the medium’s

 

physical location in the FSE library.

 

After an FSE medium is added to an FSE media pool, the FSE library where the medium is

 

located must be physically rescanned in order to record the medium’s location in the Resource

 

Management Database (RMDB). The formatting can start after the medium location information

 

is known.

Workaround

Before starting to format the re-added FSE media, run the following command to physically

 

rescan the FSE library. The command will add location information for the re-added FSE media

 

into the RMDB:

 

fselibrary --update-inventory LibraryName --rescan

 

This also unblocks formatting jobs that have already started from waiting for the missing

 

location information, enabling them to allocate the re-added FSE media and continue with

 

execution.

Description

Disk FSE media pools can be incorrectly configured as media pools of the WORM type.

Explanation

When configuring a disk FSE media pool (the MediaFamily variable), you can specify WORM

 

for the media pool type (the PoolType variable). The configuration will succeed, although the

 

WORM disk media are not supported by the FSE implementation.

Workaround

None

Description

Recreating Fast Recovery Information (FRI) on a closed but empty FSE disk medium volume

 

fails.

Explanation

Closed FSE disk medium volumes which are empty are not handled correctly by the Back End

 

Agent.

Workaround

Do not recreate FRI on empty closed FSE disk medium volumes.

Description

If reorganization of an FSE medium volume fails for any reason, you cannot re-run the

 

reorganization job for the volume, because the 'scanned' indicator is removed from the

 

medium volume status.

Explanation

If the medium with the source medium volume is worn out or there is a problem with SCSI

 

hardware, the reorganization may fail when reading data from the volume. In this case, to

 

prevent further problems that might lead to a data loss, the indicator scanned is cleared for

 

the problematic medium volume.

Workaround

Resolve the problem that caused the failure of the FSE reorganization job, and run the

 

reorganizational scan again.

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