Thanks for the input guys, it was kind of what i was expecting to hear but not what i wanted to hear :-((
That said I have informed my boss and he has agreed to purchase a new shelf which will get us out of trouble for the moment on the FAS 940 which is very low on disks, I take it to add the shelf i will have to power down the filer?
If you have ESH2 shelves, then you can hot add a new shelf. Other shelves may work as well. I have definitely hot added shelves, so check the documentation. The procedure steps must be followed in the correct order or it doesn't work and the filer panics.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support