On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:28:55 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/24/2007 > at 11:31 AM, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>Before I ever changed /var to a TFS (way back when), I *though* I >>read somewhere that IBM would never put persistent data in it. > >Could you be thinking of a statement that IBM would never put >persistent data in /tmp? /var is intended for persistent data. > No. Some shops do use a TFS for /tmp, but it is documented / warned that it is not good to make it a TFS because of its size (which takes away from the kernel) and also that dumps and vi recovery files go there and you would lose them with an IPL. I should have also said "persistent data *between IPLs*". Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ 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
