Re: Sizing a read-only zFS container file
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sizing a read-only zFS container file I doubt if it will work, since it won't account for i-node space requirements. The only sure-fire way is probably to unwind it twice - first to a zFS filesystem that is plenty big, then drop it and redefine to the required size. I was afraid of that. In any case, I just did a best guess and added in a fudge factor amount. I added too much fudge though. I overallocated by 30% or so. shrug. It's not worth while to fix it for 181,512K. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Sizing a read-only zFS container file
I doubt if it will work, since it won't account for i-node space requirements. The only sure-fire way is probably to unwind it twice - first to a zFS filesystem that is plenty big, then drop it and redefine to the required size. On Dec 26, 2007 1:28 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just downloaded both the 31 and 64 bit versions of Java 6 for z/OS. I now want to create a zFS file to contain both. I will mount it at /usr/lpp/jdk160 (to go along with my jdk142 and jdk150 subdirectories). Once created, this will be mounted READ ONLY. I want to make this file as small as possible. Anybody got any ideas? So far, all that I've thought of is to unwind the PAX file on my PC and do a du -k on the subdirectories to see how big they are. Do you think this will work? I got the new JDKs starting at: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/allproducts. html -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Sizing a read-only zFS container file
I have just downloaded both the 31 and 64 bit versions of Java 6 for z/OS. I now want to create a zFS file to contain both. I will mount it at /usr/lpp/jdk160 (to go along with my jdk142 and jdk150 subdirectories). Once created, this will be mounted READ ONLY. I want to make this file as small as possible. Anybody got any ideas? So far, all that I've thought of is to unwind the PAX file on my PC and do a du -k on the subdirectories to see how big they are. Do you think this will work? I got the new JDKs starting at: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/allproducts. html -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
