> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L
>
> How much DASD do you own? It has always scared me when the
architecture
> outstrips the ability to back it up. The same thing happened going to
> XA. A sophisticated user brought down one of our test systems by
> accessing all 2 gig of virtual storage in a test program. There is no
> way we could realistically back someone (or several someones) trying
to
> access all 16 exabtyes.
Indeed, that number is so large, I doubt enough DASD has been
manufactured to date to fully back even one address space that size.
-jc-
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