Re: IFS directory nodes

On 11/19/18, 10:00 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

This does a fairly good job of explaining *TYPE2 directories
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/ifs/rzaaxtype2.htm
Basically if you start out from scratch at V5R2 or later you will have
*TYPE2. Otherwise you need to run the CVTDIR command.

<Spock>Fascinating.</Spock>

<Groucho>I'm fascinated, too. Right here on the arm.</Groucho>

Thanks, to both Joe and Rob.

So do I have this right? If "/FOO" is a Type 2 directory, then it can have 999998 subdirectories? And each of those subdirectories (e.g., "/FOO/BAR") can, theoretically, have 999998 subdirectories?
("Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.", as De Morgan put it.)

That incident must have occurred before V5R2. Yet still, in the old scheme, we have one customer that would already be nearly two thirds of the way there.

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JHHL