I'd not use SFS for Linuxes A-disk. The benefits SFS surely has for CMS users, are not enough for Linux guests to outweight the chances of an SFS that is down.
But, if you insist: renaming the VMSYS filepool to something else is a task done on 30 seconds (I did that often in my previous live): - shut down VMSYS (VMSERVS) - vmlink VMSERVS 191 <* * M> (filel -- XEDIT VMSERVS DMSPARMS and change VMSYS on the FILEPOOLID record -- RENAME the VMSYS POOLDEF file to match the new name on FILEPOOLID Leave FILELIST and restart VMSERVS. 2008/10/28 Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > >> I must of missed the first part of the conversation.... >> >> Why would you want Linux to have access to your A-disk? >> There might be reasons, but inquiring minds want to know, and deleted the >> original posts <G>. > > Handy for building systems where you can change Linux behavior without the > user knowing much of anything about Linux, by editing files in CMS. > > Adam > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support