RE: Saving a User Defined File System (UDFS) using BRMS

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Almost. Nothing stops you from saving at the device level without doing
umount, though.  I still think the purpose of umount in this case is to
ensure that changes are written do the disk.

Dennis Lovelady
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> On 2010-09-13 11:56, Charles Wilt wrote:
> > As I read it...the problem with saving a mounted UDFS is that the
> > you're only getting the stream file data and its pathname.  All other
> > attributes that are part of the directory entry in the file system
> are
> > lost.  Remember, stream files are not objects like QSYS objects.
> > There's no overall structure containing "attributes" of the objects
> > built into the stream file itself like there is with QSYS objects.
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzaiu/rzaiu
> rzaiu164.htm
> > <quote>
> > Saving a mounted UDFS
>
> If I understand this correctly, when the UDFS is umounted, you can save
> the UDFS in its physical location, and get the attributes of the UDFS
> itself, as well as ALL the objects within it. IOW, you could restore it
> and recreate the UDFS, as well as all objects within it, whereas if you
> saved the mounted filesystem, you would have the objects in the UDFS,
> but not the UDFS itself, and if you wished, you could restore some of
> the files by specifying a path selector in the RST command. Is that
> reasonably accurate?
>
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> Pete Hall
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