Forgot to mention that! It's getting pricey walking over to Peet's all the time!
Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] dasdfmt - why are you so darn slow? Did you get a coffee? On 11/07/2012 05:58 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > The list is a little quiet so I thought I would ask this. > > It takes about 42 minutes here to dasdfmt a volume with 65519 cylinders on it. > It takes about 18 minutes to dd an already formatted volume over to a new one. > It also takes about 19 minutes to fill it up with zeros by cat /dev/zero to > it. > > Why does dasdfmt take so long? > > > Marcy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > -- Richard Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Velocity Software Inc. Main: (650) 964-8867 Main: (877) 964-8867 [email protected] <mailto://[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature <http://www.velocitysoftware.com/> *Follow us:* facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Velocity-Software/356098274460840> LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/1798379?trk=tyah> twitter <https://twitter.com/VelocitySoftw> Xing <https://www.xing.com/companies/velocitysoftwaregmbh><https://www.xing.com/companies/velocitysoftwaregmbh> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
