> Maybe a requirement that ICKDSF (as if it wern't complicated enough now) > support LINUX initialization (formatting).
Somehow I doubt that would happen. Knowing a little bit more about what Tomas is trying to do, he's trying to avoid waiting for a long format to complete, so he doesn't want to format the whole disk immediately upon allocate. Otherwise, he'd just let the directory manager do a CMS FORMAT before handing the disk over. > > > I think > > > the best method is to CPFMTXA at _least_ cylinder 0 before giving it > > > to a guest. It really should be the entire volume, or use the > > > DIRMAINT > > function > > > to erase things for you. Especially if you configure the directory manager to erase disks on deallocate and write a utility to extract the unallocated areas from the disk maps and do a ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT on all those areas as a preparatory step. That would let you clean up any dangling messy unallocated spaces, and the directory manager would keep them that way. > > > > Amen. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
