On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:22, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > I'm using a slightly modified version of the SWAPGEN EXEC on v-disk for swapping in > V-disk. > > I have a user who needs LOTS of swap space. I'd like to give him two swap areas, > one in v-disk and one on a real disk (with different priorities), but the real disk > formatted with CMS FORMAT/RESERVE so I can use the minidisk cacheing option in > SLES8. Can I use SWAPGEN EXEC to build a swap file on real 3390's? I'll have to > format it with 512-byte blocks, right? > > Or can I create a FORMAT/RESERVE disk and just use mkswap on it?
Hunh. Formatting and reserving ECKD but using the diag driver should be identical. I don't see any reason we *couldn't* do an ECKD version of SWAPGEN, we just hadn't perceived a need. With real disk, I've always just used mkswap, myself. Adam
