Dirmaint hasn't been working well for me. Let's take just one
frustrating point. Here's my exclusion section of EXTENT CONTROL:
:EXCLUDE.
* USERID ADDRESS
$SYSVOL$ *
MAINT 0121
MAINT 0123
MAINT 0124
MAINT 0125
MAINT 0126
MAINT 0127
MAINT 0128
MAINT 0129
MAINT 012A
.SPOOL. *
.PAGE. *
.DIRECT. *
:END.
Yet even though I make sure that both copies of EXTENT CONTROL are
the same (1DF and 1DB - 1DF seems to have primacy, because if I
change only 1DB I find that periodically my changes are lost) and
that I have issued the DIRM RLDEXTN command, when I do a DIRM DIRMAP
volumes like Maint's 127 still show up on the map, preventing all
gaps on the volume from being shown.
By the way, how do I get DIRME? It's supposed to help with updating
EXTENT CONTROL, among other things. Kris wrote about it. I looked
for it on the VM home page's package download section and couldn't
find it. And if I don't have DIRME, which minidisk's version of
EXTENT CONTROL am I supposed to change? Am I supposed to change
1DF? Is the one on 1DB simply a copy of the one on 1DF? When is it
copied? When a "backup" is done?
I have given up using $EOV$ because I've discovered that DIRMAP (from
the old CUF) bases its determination of the size of a volume from the
mdisk with the highest extent, and that works reasonably
well. However, I have a 100 cylinder 3390 (carved out of left-over
space on a Shark) and I've been unable to make either Dirmaint or
Dirmap believe me that it's only 100 cyllinders.
/gripe on/
The frustration isn't helped by the fact that I don't have a printed
Dirmaint manual. The CDRom is fine for looking things up, but it's
not good for an initial read-through.
/gripe off/
- Tom.
At 04:00 PM 11/20/2005, you wrote:
> I'm trying to implement the $EOV$ userid discussed earlier -
> a single cylinder at the top of each volume - in order to get
> better reporting of end-of-volume gaps. I'm using Dirmaint,
> which is new to me. (I plan to use the CMS DIRMAP command,
> not Dirmaint's dirmap function, but I still need to populate
> the directory with the $EOV$ minidisks.)
I guess I don't understand why you need DIRMAP if you are running Dirmaint.
Agreed, DIRMAINT's command set is one of the less intuitive items to appear
in Western Civilization, but if you're constantly second-guessing your
resource manager, it would seem that you're spending a lot of time and
effort duplicating what DIRM already does mechanically.
Could you elaborate on what it is that causes you to want to circuvent
DIRMAINT?
-- db
Tom Cluster
County of Sonoma
Santa Rosa, CA
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