Doesn't the RVA do on the fly compression. A freshly formatted disk should compress down to almost nothing.
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:04, Jim Sibley wrote: > I just noticed that when you vary a CDL pack with a > VTOC online to MVS, it shows a 1 track VTOC, no data > sets allocated and 100% free. (It seems to me it > should show 100% allocated with a dummy data set). > > How does RVA free space collection affect this? > > If you mixed MVS and Linux CDL on the same RVA and the > Linux volumes happen to be online, how would the RVA > free space software handle the situation? There would > be a mismatch between the RVA LSA tables and what > appears to be the MVS VTOC. What would happen during > space collection? Would the space be returned to the > RVA freepool? > > Normally this is not a problem for us because we keep > the Linux on separate DASD subsystems from MVS. > However, I do have an operational requirement when I > need to put some Linux with the MVS volumes. Does this > create any other problems for Linux on the RVA? > > > ===== > Jim Sibley > Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley > > "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Sytek Services - A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI rsmrcina at wi.rr.com rsmrcina at dsgroup.com Catch the WAVV! Stay for requirements and the free-for-all. Update your zSeries skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2004 in Chattanooga, TN April 30-May 4, 2004 For details see http://www.wavv.org
