Bug#447755: CMS minidisk label format
Just for grins, I thought I'd give you the full mapping of the CMS volume label.
This is in s390 assembler language format:
ADTIDENT DS CL4 LABEL IDENTIFIER ("CMS1")
ADTID DS CL6 VOLUME IDENTIFIER (VOLSER)
ADTVER DS CL2 VERSION LEVEL
ADTDBSIZ DS F DISK BLOCK SIZE
ADTDOP DS F DISK ORIGIN POINTER
ADTCYL DS F NUM OF FORMATTED CYL ON DISK
ADTMCYL DS F MAX NUM FORMATTED CYL ON DISK
ADTNUM DS F Number of formatted blocks
ADTUSED DS F Number of blocks used
ADTFSTSZ DS F Size of FST
ADTNFST DS F Number of FSTs per block
ADTDCRED DS CL6 Disk creation date (yymmddhhmmss)
ADTFLGL DS X Label flag byte
ADTCNTRY EQU X'01' Century for disk creation date
* (0=19, 1=20), corresponds to
* ADTDCRED.
DS CL1 RESERVED
ADTOFFST DS F DISK OFFSET WHEN RESERVED
ADTAMNB DS F ALLOC MAP BLOCK WITH NEXT HOLE
ADTAMND DS F DISP INTO HBLK DATA OF NEXT HOLE
ADTAMUP DS F DISP INTO USER PART OF ALLOC MAP
ADTOFCNT DS F RESERVED
ADTSFNAM DS CL8 RESERVED
That's 80 bytes. The rest of the block is not used.
The most interesting field to Linux is ADTOFFST, which is
a 32-bit big-endian unsigned binary number that is zero if the
disk is non-reserved and non-zero if the disk is reserved.
If the disk is non-reserved, Linux assumes that the single implicit
partition starts at the block following the volume label, which
for a CKD DASD is the fourth physical block (block 3 counting from
zero), and ends at the end of the disk. If the disk is reserved,
ADTOFFST is the starting block number (counting from zero) of the
single explicit partition created by the CMS RESERVE command.
The partition ends at the end of the disk.
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