On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:48:49 -0500, Brian Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Looking for advice.... > >On z/OS 1.7, should the /dev file system be defined as a TFS (temporary >file system)? The manuals seem to indicate that all character special >files in /dev get created at IPL time anyway, so why not have this file >system be a TFS? > >Pros? Cons? > >Thanks, Brian > You've been able to use a TFS for /dev since OS/390 2.8. I have been doing that at many different shops. No cons that I know of unless you need to make it *really large* since TFS takes away from kernel storage. On most of my LPARs its 1M or 2M, but it's 10M on one system with a lot of OMVS users. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.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
