Disabling concurrent I/O and direct I/O on Domino® servers on AIX®

Concurrent I/O (CIO) and Direct I/O (DIO) are not supported with Domino® servers. CIO is a file system feature introduced in IBM® AIX® 5.2.0.10, also known as maintenance level 01, in the Enhanced Journaling File system (JFS2). This feature improves performance for relational databases.

About this task

Because the CIO feature is not supported for use with Domino® servers, do not enable this option on file systems that Domino® accesses. If this option is enabled, Domino® data might become corrupted, which can cause server crashes or performance issues.

Certain core file system items, such as file buffer cache, per-file lock or inode lock, and sync daemon, are managed differently by the operating system with the CIO option enabled. Domino® is not coded to address these changes in behavior.

The following example shows the output with CIO disabled:

/dev/test05lv     /test05 jfs2   Oct 09 23:13 rw,log=INLINE

The following example shows the output with CIO enabled:

/dev/test03lv /test03  jfs2   Sep 19 19:25 rw,cio,log=INLINE

The CIO option is typically enabled as a flag when a file system is mounted. Use these steps to disable the mount option:

Procedure

  1. Run this command for each file system mounted with CIO:
    chfs -a options=rw /FS_NAME

    Where /FS_NAME is the name of the mount point.

  2. Unmount and remount each file system, or reboot, which has the same effect when done after running the chfs commands.
  3. To verify that the change was applied, run 'mount' and verify that you do not see "cio" in the mount options column.