John, Bob, thanks. Makes much more sense now.

Bobby Bauer
Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-5628
301-594-7474



-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf 
Of Romanowski, John (OFT)
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:30 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Nedd some help undersdtanding vdisk

a VDISK is shared by CP LINK-ing to it
for example
USER1 can CP LINK USER2 700 A700 RR

VDISK NCIALPHA have 524,288 blocks because  its VDISks are defined in the CP 
directory and not via a CP command


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
> Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:23 AM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Nedd some help undersdtanding vdisk
>
> I'm really struggling with these displays and definitions. For VM 5.4:
>
> 1) The manual says v-disk are shareable, created by the first user and
> deleted after the last user.
>    If in user direct I have v-disk defined for 3 user:
>       User1 has MDISK 700 FB-512    V-DISK 524288
>       User2 has MDISK 700 FB-512    V-DISK 524288
>       User3 has MDISK 700 FB-512    V-DISK 131072
>    How are they shared?
>
>
> 2) I currently have:
> q vdisk u
> VDISK USER   LIMIT IS     144000 BLK
> Ready; T=0.01/0.01 09:39:02
> q vdisk s
> VDISK SYSTEM LIMIT IS    3605040 BLK,    3145728 BLK IN USE
> Ready; T=0.01/0.01 09:39:13
>
> q vdisk
> VDISK FAWKES   0701   131072 BLK    1 LINKS
> FAWKES   0700 R/W
>
> VDISK NCIALPHA 0701   524288 BLK    1 LINKS
> NCIALPHA 0701 R/W
>
> VDISK NCIALPHA 0700   524288 BLK    1 LINKS
> NCIALPHA 0700 R/W
>
> If the user limit is 144,000 blocks, how can VDISK NCIALPHA have
> 524,288 blocks, twice.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bobby Bauer
> Center for Information Technology
> National Institutes of Health
> Bethesda, MD 20892-5628
> 301-594-7474
>
>
>


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