On Monday, 05/23/2016 at 08:30 GMT, WF Konynenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > My concern was that Alan Altmark suggested that a critical bit of > information to positively identify these files was not available to > Linux programs, which is apparently not the case.
I meant that the attributes (user.record_format and user.record_lrecl) aren't expressed by the driver as a "normal" file attribute that a "normal" Linux application might be expected to extract on any file. I assumed (but did not verify!) that if you copied the file from the CMS disk to a native Linux file, the extended attributes would be lost. (I don't know if extended attributes are a run-time conjuring of the file system driver or if, once created, they persist with the file forever, even if copied to a non-cmsfs-fuse file system.) If they do persist, then a cmspack utility would work as well as CMS COPYFILE. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
