RE: Compressed disk..

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:24 AM 8/6/99 -0700, you wrote:

Well, this is not the design.  The design is that the objects retain their 
stated uncompressed size, and the disk compresses as much as it can.

It's amazing, as you fill up the disk (with highly compressible objects - 
like a single field file with record length 32766 and add records), the 
disk grows dynamically on the screen as it fills.  You can see the change 
in disk sizes on both WRKSYSSTS and WRKDSKSTS.

Al




>Don't you think that a change should be made in OS/400 so WRKDSKSTS shows an
>accurate utilization number for compressed disk?
>
>Kenneth
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
>Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 9:38 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: Compressed disk..
>
>
>At 08:16 AM 8/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Making the option to overflow, as opposed to freezing everything that
>touches that ASP (including WRKSYSSTS and WRKDSKSTS), posting an SRC code
>and not posting a QSYSOPR message.
>
>Al
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