On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Rob van der Heij wrote: > You can specify / change it with fdasd. Linux itself does not use the > volser, it would only be for other System z Operating Systems in the > environment to recognize the volumes (and storage admin persons). ...
To be specific, 'fdasd' can write or change a z/OS VOL1 label. There are other labels which z/VM (CP) will recognize which do not impose the block trashing demanded by z/OS. (The track and record requirements imposed by z/OS have left the platform isolated from the rest of your datacenter. CP, CMS, VSE, and especially Linux and Solaris can share disks across unlike platforms.) Next time I get the opportunity, I'll re-examine CMS1 and the fudged FBA VOL1 and post about them. I expect CMS1 can coexist with EXT2 at the same offset. In any case, "LDL" allows a CMS1 label. And I'm 100% confident that CMS1 can live alongside an ISO9660 filesystem (at the same offset). -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
