>IBM has recommend, ever since 3380K, to put everything at the front and >make them large enough to never have to grow (for the ones that can >extend). Then you will have contiguous free space. The VTOC off the front >tends towards more fragmentation.
Yes, but more importantly VTOC positioning was done to reduce head movement. As someone already pointed out, since all modern DASD is backed by SCSI drives, positioning the VTOC on a logical 3390 is useless. Put everything up front and don't worry about it. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
