On 1 Oct 2008 09:30:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: >>It either protects people from doing something stupid (reading a dataset they >>did not ever write) and adds overhead (writing EOF to a file which >will be properly written later anyway) > >The overhead is miniscule in the scheme of things. > >>I can see it being unsafe because reallocating a dataset with the same >>extents as one which was accidentally deleted is a technique sometimes >used to salvage data.
How different is this from tape marks (in the context of this thread)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
