To support minidisks that already have a VTOC embedded
i.e 'MDISK cuu devt 0 END volser'
McKown, John wrote:
This is not important, but I just have to ask this. Does anybody know
why the original designers of VM did not do something for "minidisks"
akin to a OS/360 VTOC? Actually, it would be more akin to a "partition
table" on a PC disk. It just seems that it would be easier to maintain
if there was "something" on the physical disk which contained
information about the minidisks on it. Perhaps with information such as:
start cylinder, end cylinder, owning guest, read password, etc. CP owned
volumes have an "allocation map", this seems to me to be an extention of
that concept.
Just curious.
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