Re-creation of integrated file system provided objects

 

This table shows the objects provided by the integrated file system that the Reclaim Object Links (RCLLNK) command re-creates if they do not exist. These objects are normally created during the initial program load (IPL). You can also re-create some of these objects, if necessary, using the Reclaim Storage (RCLSTG) command.

Table 1. Objects provided by the integrated file system and re-created by the RCLLNK and RCLSTG commands

Path name	Type	Recreated by RCLLNK	Recreated by RCLSTG ASPDEV(*SYSBASE)
/dev/zero	*CHRSF	Yes	Yes
/dev/null	*CHRSF	Yes	Yes
/dev/xti/tcp	*CHRSF	Yes	No
/dev/xti/udp	*CHRSF	Yes	No
/etc/vfs	*STMF	Yes	No

In order for the RCLLNK command to re-create an object provided by the integrated file system that does not exist, it must be run with the SUBTREE parameter set to *DIR or *ALL while specifying the parent directory. The command must successfully reclaim the parent directory of the system object. For example,

RCLLNK OBJ('/dev') SUBTREE(*DIR)

re-creates the /dev/zero and /dev/null *CHRSF objects if they do not exist.

In order for the RCLSTG command to re-create an integrated file system provided object that does not exist, it must be run with the ASPDEV parameter set to *SYSBASE and the directory recovery portion of reclaim must not be omitted.

 

Parent topic:

Reclaim operation of the "root" (/), QOpenSys, and user-defined file systems

 

Related concepts

Provided directories

 

Related information

Reclaim Object Links (RCLLNK) command