There are two reasons I want to use CMS RESERVEd minidisks. First, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to transmit images over the network to other developers (just VMARC them into a VMARC library and sendfile them over RSCS - doesn't get any easier!). The second reason is I want to play with the PIPE stages that allow you to read/write directly to/from Linux disks.
Oh well, maybe after the system is built it will recognize the CMS RESERVEd disks. Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room�6030 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.� 20224 Voice: (202)�927-4188�� FAX:� (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CMS RESERVED Minidisks > Once a disk has been formatted and reserved under CMS - you don't need to > DASDFMT it under Linux, do you? Just mke2fs? Right. Unfortunately the folks at RedHat had incomplete guidance on how this works, so their installer wants to format the disks in the new MVS-style format. I believe their previous installer did support it. Except for the option to use diagnose I/O, most of the other motivation to use reserved disk are satisfied with OS formatted disks too (you can see they're in use, and a VM based backup program can perform a physical backup of the data. Rob
