Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/20/2010 at 04:10 EDT, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Not that long unless its 57 Terabytes. > I think it's the safe thing to do too, but z/OS is doing them this time (don't > ask) and they are questioning the necessity. > Would be good to have a definitive answer from IBM! (IBM disk).

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Les Koehler
and Operating Systems Support Office - 443 348-2102 Cell - 443 632-4191 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: ICKDSF forma

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
s Support Office - 443 348-2102 Cell - 443 632-4191 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD How do y

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Doug Shupe
y, July 20, 2010 15:47 Subject: Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD Hi Marcy, I use to format the whole volume under CPFMTXA or ICKDSF on z/OS and then turn around only to have Linux format them again a real waste of time. So now I just init cylinder zero with a z/VM Label for doc purposes and it works fi

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:54 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] ICKDSF format of new DASD Marcy, I use ICKDSF to format all new DASD that is assigned to a VM LPAR, whether it's a new

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
o:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 09:37 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] ICKDSF format of new DASD What is the current recommendation for new DASD purchases and ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT for disk to be used for Linux. We've been formatti

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Dean, David (I/S)
: ICKDSF format of new DASD Hi Marcy, I use to format the whole volume under CPFMTXA or ICKDSF on z/OS and then turn around only to have Linux format them again a real waste of time. So now I just init cylinder zero with a z/VM Label for doc purposes and it works fine. Thank You, Terry Martin

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
: ICKDSF format of new DASD When we *had* zLinux POC guests, we formatted them under CMS using the LXFMT utility, see: http://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/lxfmt Once formatted with LXFMT, the disk was accessible from Linux without dasdfmt. But your particular filesystem needs may require

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Walter
Cortes wrote: From: Marcy Cortes Subject: ICKDSF format of new DASD To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Tuesday, 20 July, 2010, 9:36 AM What is the current recommendation for new DASD purchases and ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT for disk to be used for Linux. We've been formatting the whole thing. Once

Re: ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Martin Magat
: ICKDSF format of new DASD To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Tuesday, 20 July, 2010, 9:36 AM What is the current recommendation for new DASD purchases and ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT for disk to be used for Linux. We've been formatting the whole thing.  Once upon a time there was a DASD driver bug

ICKDSF format of new DASD

2010-07-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
What is the current recommendation for new DASD purchases and ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT for disk to be used for Linux. We've been formatting the whole thing. Once upon a time there was a DASD driver bug that this helped avoid, but I'm sure that has been fixed before. Marcy