On Friday, 11/30/2007 at 01:15 EST, Mark Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several years ago I allocated various sized disks to my personal zLinux > machine, formatted, partitioned, and mkfs'd them as ext3 filesystems. I > unmounted them and CMSDDR'd them to CMS files in an "EMPTYEXT3" SFS > directory (they compress really nice - just over 100 cyls to store a > 10016-cyl ext3 filesystem). Now, when I get a request for a, say 3338-cyl > ext3 0X0202 disk, I allocate the minidisk, CMSDDR RESTORE the > appriorate-sized preformatted backup, run ICKDSF CPVOL LABEL VOLID(0X0202), > and give it to the zLinux box, all ready to go.
And if you have Flashcopy capability, even better. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
