Primary, Secondary, UDFS disk pools
An independent disk pool that contains user-defined file systems, directories and libraries, or associated directory and library information.
User-defined file system (UDFS)
An independent disk pool that contains only user-defined file systems. It cannot be a member of a disk pool group unless it is converted to a primary or secondary disk pool.
Primary
An independent disk pool that defines a collection of directories and libraries and may have other secondary disk pools associated with it. A primary disk pool also defines a database for itself and other disk pools that may be added in its disk pool group. Primary disk pools can only be implemented on OS/400® V5R2 or i5/OS® V5R3 and later.
Secondary
An independent disk pool that defines a collection of directories and libraries and must be associated with a primary disk pool. A possible use for a secondary disk pool might be to store journal receivers for the objects being journaled in the primary disk pool. Secondary disk pools can only be implemented on OS/400 V5R2 or i5/OS V5R3 and later.
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Types of disk pools