On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:48:39 +0000, Jasi Grewal <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi, I just picked up zVM support after skipping for many years and >experiencing an odd BFS issue. > - We need to populate VMSYS root and it seems that loadbfs does not perform > it anymore. > - I tried from starting with scratch SFS system: > - Then using bfsroot - loadbfs bfs loadbfs and gskssldb from Maint 193 > > - It creates directories within Root but does not populates it. >I made sure that the directories has correct owners and uid's and I remember >that this used to work on z/VM v5.3. > >Any guidance would be appreciated.Thank You in advance, 1. See "BFS Root File Space in a Non-default File Pool" in the CMS File Pool Planning book. You must load the Shell and Utilities separately (SHELL LOADBFS). Note carefully that you must modify a LOADBFS file if you don't want the default filepool(s). 2. See the TCP/IP Planning book for references to LOADBFS. You have to load the SSL server, gskkyman, and LDAP server files spaces separately. (The names are in the book.) 3. You can export the TCP/IP file spaces from VMSYS and import them into your new file server. 4. You can clone all of the disks used by VMSYS and change the name of the filepool, giving you the same content as VMSYS. 5. What's wrong with just using VMSYS and skip all this pain? (SERVICE will not maintain the content of your own filepools, so putting IBM code in them isn't a great idea.) 6. The z/VM SMEs hang out in the IBMVM mailing list at https://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?A0=IBMVM. Let's continue the discussion there. Alan Altmark, IBM Senior Managing z/VM Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
