Mark (and others!) Thanks very much - just what I was hoping to hear - real user experiences. TFS for /dev, here we come!
Brian On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:02:13 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:48:49 -0500, Brian Peterson 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
