On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:31:16 -0600, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ><opinion type="personal"> >HFS, as best as I can tell, is still needed for your "root" filesystem. In z/OS 1.7 that is no longer true. The root can be a zFS if you want. >If you're not really using UNIX, then you don't need anything else, so >in that case, I'd use HFS. But enabling zFS is very simple and costs >very little. So, if it were me, I'd make all my non-root filesystems >zFS. Agree that enablement is fairly simple. Not sure I agree on "make all filesystems zFS" at this point. >It is more reliable than HFS. I think the jury is out on that one still. Until there is more usage and acceptance, at this point I'm not sure how much I trust zFS so I only have limited use (there have been problems but I think z/OS 1.7 made some RAS improvements). Not all that much different than PDSE was in the not so distant past (even though PDSE has been around since MVS/ESA). HFS may still be more stable/reliable for mission critical applications at this point even though there are no improvements planned. Anyone care to comment on personal experiences (good or bad)? >All new facilities will be added to zFS. Fact, not opinion. :-) ></opinion> > -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
