RE: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS

Doug,

Rob asked;

"Don't try to convince me that this space is needed by the
date changed.  There is no way that would eat up more than twice the space
used by the actual code.  Now, I do like that date changed though - but
something else is sucking up disk space like a hoover."

I misunderstood Rob's question (to be honest I skipped some of the preceding 
posts), I though he was asking *why* it was less efficient to store the source, 
I was puzzled, as that kind of question coming from Rob seemed strange - in my 
mind he's the type of person that would have realised the reason instantly.

I guess he was *supporting* the fact, not asking why.

--phil


>For the IFS, all the 'whitespace' is removed.
>
>Try creating a IFS file with all the lines filled out to 92 chars...

<snip>
That said, although a PF-SRC is not very space efficient, I don't think it is a
significant factor in the average 400's total DASD consumption.  On every
machine I've checked, the total DASD consumed by all source members was
insignificant compared to data in physical files.