MULTIPLE-STRUCTURE SYSTEMS

Mountable Structures Has a HOME block

Can have a front-end files area

Can be used to load the system if the proper file areas and files have been established May contain system files Contains user files

All packs in the structure must be on-line to use the structure

A multiple-structure system consists of a public structure and one or more additional structures. Figure 4-1 illustrates a system with three disk drives and two structures. The two-pack public structure MASTER: must be online during timesharing. The one-pack mountable structure ADMIN: can be removed during timesharing. Another one-pack structure can be mounted in its place.

Figure 4-1: System with 3 Disk Drives and 2 Structures

Using Figure 4-1, suppose you want structure ADMIN: to remain on-line at all times during system operation. The structure is automatically mounted if you turn on the drive that contains the structure before the system is brought up. The !Qr§=~Q QE~!~~Q!:§

gy!g~ describes mounting structures automatically.

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Figure 4-2: Three-Structure System

and three

is used for short-term mounting of different one-pack structures.

PROG: remains online only for the time it is needed. disturbing normal system operation.

require

o Creating structures on mountable packs provides additional security to that already within the system. For example,

The principal disadvantages of using mountable structures are the need for scheduling both access to the data and operator coverage to install and remove packs on the drives, as described in Section 1.2.2, Mountable Structure Sign-Up Log. There is also some risk that packs will be damaged during handling.

After the system is operating and structures have been created, the

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operator responds to requests from users to mount and dismount structures. Section 4.5.5 describes how to place user directories on your mountable structures to obtain maximum availability to priority jobs.

4.5.1 Choosing Structure Names

Each device on the system has a name, called the physical device name, which is used when giving commands to the software. Unlike the generic device name that applies to a class of devices, for example: TTY:, DSK:, LPT:, the physical device name applies to a particular device on the system; for example, TTY6: and LPTO:. The physical device names for disks are structure names. A structure name can be from one to six alphanumeric characters of your choice, and, like other device names, must be followed by a colon. The colon indicates to the software that a device is being used and not, for example, a file.

It is important to carefully assign a unique name to each structure that you create. Section 4.5.2, Mounting Structures Having the Same Name, explains why this precaution avoids confusion for users if an operator is unavailable during timesharing.

Because structure names are used in the device field (dev:) of a file specification, you should not create any structures with the same name as a defined (or valid) device name. Table 4-3 lists device names that may be defined in your system.

For the same reason, avoid naming a structure with a defined logical

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name, for example, SYS:, SYSTEM:, NEW:, OLD:, HLP:, etc., because

the system searches the list of defined systemwide logical names before device names. (Refer to Section 3.3 for a description of

logical names.)

Refer to Chapter 12, The Common File- System, for structure-naming considerations in a CFS environment.

Table 4-3: Sample Device Names

DSK: CDP:

MTAn: FEn:

MTn: TTY:

LPT: TTYn:

LPTn: PTYn:

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PLPTn: NUL:

CDR: PLT:

PCDRn: PLTn:

PCDPn: DCN:

TCP: SRV:

Where n is the unit number of the device.

To avoid duplication, you can get a list of all structure names known to the system by giving the operator command, SHOW STATUS STRUCTURE.

These structures do not have to be online. Their presence in the listing indicates that they were previously specified in a SET STRUCTURE command.

4.5.2 Mounting Structures Having the Same Name

A situation may arise requiring you to mount a structure that has the same name as a structure that is already online. Perhaps another installation has requested you to mount its public structure (named PUBLIC:) for testing purposes, but you already have a structure named PUBLIC: online. Because the system notices ambiguous structure names, you must mount the structure under a different name.

Each structure that is mounted is identified with two names: the physical identification and the alias. Usually, these names are the same. The physical identification is the actual structure name written in the HOME block of that structure. The alias is the name that you use to reference the structure while it is mounted. After a structure is online, it is known only by its alias. The MOUNT command is used to mount a structure and give it an alias different from the physical identification. This allows two or more structures with the same physical name to be online simultaneously. The system distinguishes them by their different aliases. (The !Qe§=~Q Q2~~~~2~~~ g~!g~ describes this procedure.)

4.5.3 Maximum Size of Structures

The maximum size of a structure is approximately 805,680 pages. A structure of this size requires 2 RP20 disk drives (4 spindles).

Structures of the maximum size, however, may not be practical for your installation. Smaller structures enhance the reliability and availability of the system. Remember that you can have up to 32

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structures on-line at one time.

Also, if a structure is contained on more than one disk pack, the packs and drive units for that structure must all be the same type, that is, either all RP04s, RP06s, RP07s, RP20s, RA60s, or RA81s. For example,

Table 4-4 shows the maximum structure size using RP04, RP06, RP07, RP20, RA60, and RA81 disk drives. For all drive types, there can be 12,000 directories per structure and 5,000 files per directory.

NOTE

The number of directories per structure and files per directory that can be created is approximate. This is because the disk space needed to create a directory or file varies according to the lengths of the names chosen for directories and files.

Table 4-4: Maximum Size Structures

Type of Max.No.Packs No. Pages

Disk Drive Per Structure Per Pack

RP04 4 38000

RP06 3 76000

RP07 1 216376

RP20 4 201420

RA60 4 90516

RA81 4 200928

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4.5.4 Increasing the Size of Structures

You can add more disk packs to increase the size of structure (not the public structure) during timesharing.

you must:

a mountable To do this,

o Dump the entire file structure onto magnetic tape using the DUMPER program

o Run the DLUSER program

o Run the CHECKD program, specifying the new configuration, to re-create the structure

o Restore all the directories and files from magnetic tape using the DUMPER program

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If possible, re-create the structure and restore the files to a different set of packs from the structure that you dumped. This precaution ensures that you do not lose any valuable data should you have problems reading the tape back to disk. That is, you still have the original structure intact and can rerun DUMPER and copy the structure to another tape.

To increase the size of the public structure, you must shut down the system and follow the installation procedure for bringing up this structure with more disk packs. Refer to Chapter 9, System Problems/Crashes, and to the TQr§=~Q ~~ M2g~! ~ !~~~~!!~~!2~ gg!g~.

4.5.5 Setting Up Structures for Maximum Availability

Before you create structures and place user directories on them, you should determine which users must be on the system at all times.

Place these users' directories and files on the public structure, or on another structure that is always available during timesharing.

Divide the remaining users of the system by priority, and place their directories and files on the other structures. Although these users have log-in directories on the public structure, their large working area where they create and store files is on the other on-line structures. You may want to help users set up their LOGIN.CMD and BATCH.CMD files so that they can mount, connect, and access the appropriate directory on the structure where their files are located, if it is not the public structure. Dividing users into categories and placing them on structures accordingly ensures that the failure of one disk drive does not prevent the most important users from using the system. For example, if the drive that contains ADMIN: goes down, you can remove the ADMIN: pack from the broken drive, and mount it on

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another drive that contains a less critical structure.

Also, on-line disk diagnostics can be performed during timesharing.

Sometimes, the service engineer can dismount a non-critical structure, mount the maintenance pack, and perform preventive maintenance or trouble-shooting with only a portion of the user community off-line. public structure, having a second public structure available allows you to resume timesharing without reinstalling the system.

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structure periodically with the System Backup Tape and the latest

·incremental dumper tapes. (Chapter 7, System Backup, describes creating and using your System Backup Tape and incremental tapes.) Occasionally updating your backup public structure (in storage) keeps it reasonably up-to-date.

4.5.6 Taking Structures Off-Line

When a structure must be taken off-line, the operator should notify

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4.5.7 Mounting Structures from Another Installation

If you mount a structure from another installation, or perhaps a structure that contains confidential data, some of the user names on this structure may match the user names on your public structure. You must mount this structure in what is called a FOREIGN state, to avoid the mishap of your users accessing directories that do not belong to them. The same is true if you bring one of your structures to another installation. You should have the operator at the installation mount your structure as a FOREIGN structure. Figure 4-3 illustrates this concept.

Figure 4-3: Domestic and Foreign Structures

A structure is brought online in one of two states, DOMESTIC or FOREIGN, according to the setting that the operator last specified for this structure with the SET STRUCTURE command. The system uses the FOREIGN state as the default if a SET STRUCTURE command has never been given for this structure. The structure remains in the specified state until the operator changes the state with the SET STRUCTURE or the UNDEFINE command. Note that the setting is unchanged across system crashes and reloads.

You should bring a structure online as DOMESTIC only if the directories on that structure were created for the same people as those on the public structure. One can be a subset of the other, but a given directory name should represent the same person on both.

Conversely, you should bring a structure on-line as FOREIGN if the directories on that structure were not necessarily created for the same people as those on the public structure. This is because a user who is logged into a directory on the public structure is the owner of an identically named directory on a DOMESTIC structure, and can give the CONNECT or ACCESS command to that directory without giving a password (provided the directory protection allows this type of access for the owner, which is the usual case). However, a user who logs

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into the public structure and gives the CONNECT or ACCESS command to a directory with an identical name on a FOREIGN structure must give the associated password.

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