While attending the IBM Power Systems Symposium this week, I learnt that starting with AIX 7.1 (and AIX 6.1 TL6) JFS2 logging is disabled during a mksysb restore. You may be familiar with disabling JFS2 logs, if not, take a look at this IBM technical note:   https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1012643   I’ve been unable to find any official documentation from IBM that mentions this new enhancement to the mksysb restore process. However, when I checked my own AIX 7.1 system I found the following statement/code in the... [More]

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