If only I had the flashcopy feature! That's a good idea though!
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Berthold Gunreben Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 11:47 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] dasdfmt slowness Hi Marcy, I have no idea, if this is being investigated. For myself, I found a different solution. You can dasdfmt one disk, and then do a flashcopy to all other disks of the same size that should be formatted. Hope this helps... Berthold On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:18:19 +0000 Marcy Cortes <marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > Back Nov 2012 ... a long discussion ensued. > > > On 08.11.2012 00:58, Marcy Cortes wrote: > It takes about 42 minutes here to dasdfmt a volume with 65519 > cylinders on it. It takes about 18 minutes to dd an already formatted > volume over to a new one. It also takes about 19 minutes to fill it up > with zeros by cat /dev/zero to it. > > Why does dasdfmt take so long? > > This is a known problem which is currently being investigated. > > > Regards, > Peter Oberparleiter > > Any progress in this area? > > > > Marcy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Berthold Gunreben Build Service Team http://www.suse.de/ Maxfeldstr. 5 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
