said:
Hi Harry,
>That's because I was responding to Denny's problem, based on my own
>experience with DFSee, which is only natural. I was trying to offer
>help.
I understand this. My POV is help on an unrelated issue is not always
helpful when the person receiving the help is already on overload.
>Yup, you are probably right there. But, again, I did not know this (that
>the message occurs only if you attempt a JFS volume, etc).
This is why, rather than assuming I know the answer, I ask questions when
something seems inconsistent. As I said, I had forgotten how to trigger
the warning and your description was not sufficient to recover the lost
memory, so I asked someone I figured would know.
>And by the way, I disargee with the assessment that the DFSee message
>(the message to not create a volume and assign a drive letter) only
>occurs, if you are trying to make a JFS partition.
Then give me a step by step of how you can get the message without
selecting a JFS partition type in the Specify partition properties dialog
or by issuing something like
cr log jfs -L
on the command line.
>Please re-read my
>last E-Mail. At the time that I got the DFSee message I was only trying
>to create an "LVM-AWARE" partition.
I read what you said. You misunderstand what LVM-aware means to IBM.
LVM-aware means that OS2LVM.DMD manages the drive letter assignments when
OS/2 is up and running. The terminology may be confusing but it is what
it is and it is unlikely to change.
>I had NOT yet formatted it as JFS or
>anything at all.
This is obvious. Dfsee not only can not yet create JFS volumes, but it
can not format JFS volumes.
>Therefore, at this point, how does DFSee know that I'm
>going to create a JFS partition?
Because you asked it to. Again, the warning is telling you dfsee can not
create JFS volumes. Dfsee has no problems creating JFS partitions.
>Does "LVM-aware" equate to "JFS"?
No. JFS partitions, JFS volumes and LVM-aware are all different things.
>I
>thought you can have LMV-aware partitions that are FAT32, or NTFS, or
>(non-booting) HPFS. Am I wrong on this?
You are mis-using the terms. Technically, partitions are not LVM aware,
volumes are LVM-aware. In the case of compatibility volumes, which are a
subset of LVM-aware volumes, there can only be a one to one mapping of
partitions to volumes. JFS volumes differ. A JFS volume can span
multiple JFS partitions.
Also, just to keep things interesting, bootable JFS can be not installed
to a JFS volume. My point is the specific meaning of JFS and LVM is going
to vary based on context.
Regards,
Steven
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