Correct, the allocation of a minidisk does not affect the volume label,
the allocation bitmap or it use by CP for paging, spooling, online
directory or warmstart. The allocation of a minidisk helps keep the the
bookkeeping straight. It is hard for DIRMAP or DISKMAP to tell my
replacement where these special areas are unless there are placeholders
in the directory.
/Tom Kern
Schuh, Richard wrote:
Taken together, the allocation as a spool or page extent an the
inclusion in a defined MDISK extent is pretty strong protection and
makes the separate allocation of cylinder 0 somewhat redundant. But if
you want to do that, it does not prohibit you from allocating the space
as PAGE or SPOL in CPFMTXA. The definition of the minidisk is unrelated
to the allocation bit map.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
