On Wed, Aug 31st, 2011 at 3:26 AM, "McKown, John" wrote: > You're dead, as far as I know. IBM never designed an fsck for either of > their z/OS UNIX filesystems. I was under the impression that the MOUNT > itself had the fsck "fixing" in it.
And "fsck" is typically more concerned with ensuring a valid (consistent ?) filesystem exists, not necessarily that all the files contained within survive intact. There are exceptions - the designers of (Suns) ZFS were so enamoured with their handiwork they took years to accept that they even needed a fsck. Mighty impressive piece of work, but it still broke. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
