You get in R/W by definition, corresponding even to a LINK MW, with all dangers that implies. Therefore, use ACCESS vdev Z/Z to tell CMS to treat it as R/O My MDSK EXEC (on VM's download lib) will make that R/O access the default.
2009/3/5 Shimon Lebowitz <shim...@iname.com> > Hi, > I was surprised to discover that there is apparently no way to do > a DEFINE MDISK without getting read/write access to the mdisk. > > Did I miss something? > Am I the only one who wants to be able to LOOK at > a disk area, but do not want to risk WRITING on it? > (Especially when, iirc, EVERY time CMS does a RELEASE > of a R/W disk it writes the directory!!) > > I just assumed I could do > DEF MDISK cuu startcyl numcyls volser R/O > > Does anyone have a way around this? > > Thanks, > Shimon > > -- > ************************************************************************ > Shimon Lebowitz mailto:shim...@iname.com > VM System Programmer . > Israel Police National HQ. > Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 fax: 542-9308 > ************************************************************************ > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
