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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation


George Shedlock
 

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Steven,
If you are referring to VM minidisks (such as those available to a cms user), I believe that the device type is always the same as what the VM operating system thinks they are. So if VM thinks the "real" device is ckd, then the cms minidisk is also ckd.

George Shedlock

On 2/1/2020 4:02 PM, Dave Wade wrote:

Steven,

I haven¡¯t looked at the code, but VM/370R6 only uses 800byte blocks so CKD for minidisks. I don¡¯t know how this is mapped to clusters on windows or linux, but its possible it overlaps two physical sectors¡­

Later versions of CMS use 512/1024/2048/4096 (I think) block sizes which could map to physical sectors, but I bet there is some overhead. On an SSD its probably very low.

Dave

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steven Fosdick
Sent: 01 February 2020 20:18
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Subject: Re: [h390-vm] VM/370 Hercules Optimisation

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Related to this discussion of performance is the virtual device associated with a minidisc always the same type of device (CKD or FBA) as the underlying device or can it be different.? If it can be different is there a performance penalty for conversion?


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