Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Richard Troth:
> Christian,
>
> Never assume that ECKD is CDL again, please.

And never assume its not, please :-)

Rick, I know that you have enough knowledge about disk formats. And people
trust you, because they know you have a lot of experience. So when you make a
suggestion on a mailing list that is valid in this scenario, but has the
potential to harm data on other systems I think it needs a warning.
You wrote your suggestion without a warning and not everybody has the
knowledge about the technical details of disk layouts.

To explain my warning, we had customers doing exactly this on CDL disks
because it works everywhere else. If people are used to do that (because it
works on CMS formatted mini disk, ATA/SATA whatever) they will do so on CDL
disks as well.  My experience says that enough Linux on z installations have
CDL (Yast formats using CDL for example) to make this suggestions dangerous.

Christian

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