I think the original point was more about logical volume failures (VVDS deleted, VTOC or VTOCIX hosed). The larger the volume, the greater the impact of a failure.
After time, I wonder what fragmentation would look like. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Hawkins [mailto:snip] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Here we go again (was z/OS Hot Topics 19) John, Not really. A disk failure - two disk failures actually - on an Array Group of 3390-3 can affect over 300 volumes. I would much rather manage restoring 4-10 large volumes than 300+ small ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
