If a user greatly reduces their file usage, you can create a new home directory, copy the remaining files over, and release the old directory. If it's a separate z/OS file system, you get the space back.
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 07:11 Jack Zukt <jzuk...@gmail.com> wrote: > As someone pointed out, it is only one more user file and I suppose that > you no not manage your space by restricting the number of user files. As it > has also been noticed, it can, and will be HSM migrated. > And when you delete a RACF userid the zfs file goes with all the others, > there is no USS directory to be located and deleted. > Never looked back after we implemented it a few years ago. > Best wishes > Jack > > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 00:27 Andrew Rowley <and...@blackhillsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > On 8/08/2023 12:37 am, Jon Perryman wrote: > > > Automount was created specifically to address some filesystem > > > blemishes. There's a problem they needed to solved and they allowed > > > people to continue without the use of automount. For those who choose > > > automount, they decided that with all its faults, it solved more > > > problems than it created. > > > > IBM didn't create automount. It was a standard unix thing before IBM did > > unix. IBM just came up with the idea of HSM migrating home directories > > as a use case. > > > > The primary problem with individual filesystems is that freespace > > doesn't get returned to the system. Deleted a file? The space still > > can't be used by someone else. If you accidentally fill up your > > filesystem, when you delete the file after all those "growing > > filesystem" messages: congratulations, you own the empty space. > > > > The secondary problem is that migrating filesystems makes file and > > directory level management impractical. > > > > # du --sh /home/* > > > > # find /home -size 2G > > > > Don't even think about it, unless you like HSM recalls. > > > > File level backup also gets complicated when filesystems are migrated. > > > > Pretty much all the problems that automounted individual filesystems are > > supposed to solve are actually a result of having individual > > filesystems. They don't have to be solved on other platforms because > > they didn't create them in the first place (or there is a better > > solution e.g. quotas). > > > > -- > > Andrew Rowley > > Black Hill Software > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
