This means: For a LINUX running in a LPAR I have to provide
another volume with an emergency system on it which I could
IPL. Then I could do what I desribed above.
IMHO, this is really awkward.
Is there any way to do it an easier way?
Well, you could install VM...8-)
I keep a IPLable
Weird. I tried that month/year and it's missing a few days.
But I tried
the previous year and the following and it worked. Strange. I'm sure
there is a logical explanation for this?
Yep. Adjustment of the calendar to correct for cumulative loss of a few days
from the Julian calendar to
I had KDE running on a Multiprise 2000. It took about an
hour to bring
it up and start KOffice, but it ran. I haven't tried it on the
Multiprise 3000.
It works fine -- IFF you have native IEEE FP. KDE is very graphics
intensive, and guess what? the X graphics libraries use tons of FP math.
There are instructions on the UTS FTP site and a modified ramdisk image that
includes the CLAW boot code for the 2.2.16 release that you can use to
install from scratch with CLAW support. See ftp.uts.com.
Doesn't help you much with the 2.4 stuff, but then again, you paid for
support for that
Arf. Right. I need more coffee.
Thanks, Paul.
--db
There are instructions on the UTS FTP site and a modified
ramdisk image that
includes the CLAW boot code for the 2.2.16 release that you
can use to
install from scratch with CLAW support. See ftp.uts.com.
If you mean the UTS Global
How do I parse the identification field in /proc/cpuinfo? The
other ones
I understand. The one I have access to says processor 0:
version = FF,
Probably this indicates you're running under VM or VIF. The Linux guest is
seeing a virtual CPU (on bare metal, this would be the actual physical id
IBM Journal of RD occasionally publishes some interesting
articles in this
vein.
Thanks, that paid off immediately, if someone wonders the URL is:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd
And they have many nice articles online.
Vol. 43, Nos. 5/6, 1999 are particularly interesting for
Are there any performance counters such as other processors
have (cache
hit/miss, tlb hit/miss, branch predict misses, insns retired etc.)
available from Linux?
Hmm. If gcc generates the code to collect them (or gprof), then they should
be available in the same ways as on the other
One way we've used is to set up a Linux guest with IP port forwarding turned
on, and install a ssh client on the workstations. We use ssh to redirect a
high-numbered port on the local workstation to another high-number port on
the Linux guest and have the Linux guest forward the resulting
Compiles cleanly, but I don't have a copy of the desktop piece, so untested.
And has anyone gotten Quake working yet?
Adam
This sounds very nice but:
1. will this work when using SAF (I don't think so)?
No, it will work, but SAF will not be aware of it or manage it in any way.
If you do it manually, it'll work, but I don't make any guarantees about
SAF's ability to cope with manual changes outside it's purview.
Interesting update from Oracle-land
-- db
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:40 PM
To: David Boyes
Subject: Update: Oracle9i for Linux/390
Oracle Corporation
Hello,
You are receiving this email as a direct
Yes. The questions are really: what are you porting, and from what level of
AIX?
For AIX 4.x and 5.x, straight C, C++, Java, Perl, etc go over with mostly
makefile changes -- and things that run on AIX 4.x and higher don't really
require many of those now that AIX puts most of the tools in
Hello,
I've a problem with ipl suse sles7 kernel 2.4.7. After installation with
yast
it isn't possible to boot from to installation device.
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Can anyone help me?
You'll have to contact SuSE directly for support on that release-- in fact,
you paid for support
How much is a SuSe Linux/390 distribution these days? A German user
told me yesterday that the cost is very far from insignificant.
It can be downloaded at no charge.
That's the old 7.0 GA, not the SLES 7 current release. You cannot download
the current release. It is not available without
We have started an project to evaluate using Linux here. Part
of the mandate
is to start as we mean to proceed. In other words, the distribution we
choose now will be the one we go into production with (IF we go into
production). When we go into production, the distribution
vendor MUST be
You have a good plan and you might want to talk to SuSE and
'encourage'
them to get their evaluation license in place.
I'd certainly add a voice to this.
Adam - I wouldn't say that a lot of shops have enough Linux
depth to do it
on their own, especially when you get into the issues of
Gee, Jim, have you been sued for accidental use of acronyms in email
messaging before? I'll try to remember zseries (Is the S in caps? Oh
well,
another lawsuit;)).
Naw, Jim's just the guy who has to go around behind confused salesdroids and
press people to clean up garbage like Linux for
The only reason I commented on it at all was that at least one previous
note in this thread had asked what would ya ever need with a 64-bit Linux
besides gee-whiz value?.
Well, not quite. What I said was that not many problems require it *at this
time*, and that most of the problems that do
I'm currently working on porting the Globus distributed computing
tools, and one of the systems I need to include in a computing grid
is a OS/390 box. Unfortunately, this box does not have a C compiler.
Do any of you folks have some spare cycles to run a fairly large
compile and test run on a
- Original Message -
From: Steve Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey, I'm a sales guy, not a droid:-). I've installed Unix system around
the
world. I was the engineer, the programmer, the trainer and the cable guy.
I can sell, too.
Yep. That's why I said confused salesdroids. You're not
We had a set of NT servers lately that we wanted to migrate
to Linux/390
SAMBA for cost purposes. The cost savings would have been
enormous. The NT
weenies did everything they could to shut us up and prove
that we couldn't
do the job, desparately looking for anything and everything
that
N... re-read the press release (which as I commented earlier may well
be
unofficial and inaccurate, based on conversation with a Suse guy at
Linuxworld). There are three 'test' options: download the beta, get GA on
a
free 60-day trial on CDROM, or get GA on a 6-month evaluation, with
David Boyes wrote:
All this discussion about line editors made me think a bit
of the one editor
that Linux doesn't have that should be there: TECO.
Ah, but it does! ;-)
Yes, but in any sensible system, TECO is the default...8-). ex and sed
always revive all the STOPGAP and SOS traumas I
Well, at least they're finally starting to think about security. Even an
Evil Empire needs security, right, Emperor Zurg?
-- db
To infinity, andoh, bother. Piglet, what time is it? I'm feeling a
little eleven o'clockish.
-- Space Ranger Pooh.
-Original Message-
From: Linux on
The standard mrouted works OK if you have a directly attached non-shared
NON-QDIO OSA (so you can't use the gig Ethernet OSA at all) or the CLAW
driver as I modified it a few months ago and the latest IOS code with fixes
for intra-CIP multicast/broadcast/directed unicast forwarding. It doesn't
We are trying to do exactly what you said won't work -
Getting multicast to
work for a number of Linux Servers running as VM guests using
CTC's back to
TCPIP ... We figured if we could connect a single Linux
server to the an OSA
card (we only have a gigabit card available) we could then
-Original Message-
From: Newfield, Nancy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:33 PM
To: Davis, Jeff
Subject: RE: linux and vmsecure
Hi, Jeff,
Development has indicated that there are plans to integrate
both CA-ACF2 and
CA-Top Secret for VM but no
However we cannot get connectivity to the rest of our network.
We added a static ip telling the network that to get to 147.110.49.17
you must go through 147.110.49.18 and it worked out perfect. We can now
telnet to our Linux partition whithout any problems. We dont want to use
static ip on
No, unless you count the original Marist distribution, which was derived
from an earlier Red Hat. The first official Red Hat for S/390 was a 7.x
release.
-- db
- Original Message -
From: Dave Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:58 PM
CA is supposed to have AutoSys available, and Control-M is available.
-- db
- Original Message -
From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 6:24 PM
Subject: Job Scheduling on Linux
Other than cron and at, are there any job scheduling
Guess they learned from your talk, hmm?
They do refer to VM in passing in the first couple of public papers, and
give it a short nod as an early incarnation. See also their early Usenix
presentations.
-- db
- Original Message -
From: Ron Higgin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unless the Linux application is multithreaded (like Apache or such), you'll
see a small kick from going from 1 to 2, and diminishing returns for n=3.
Keep in mind that the timeslice for the virtual machine is divided between
all the virtual CPUs defined, so you *can* make it worse (see some of
Yes, works fine.
-- db
- Original Message -
From: Ann Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: LINUX 2.4.7 z/VM 3.1 and a G3
Can LINUX 2.4.7 run on a G3 processor?
I really think you should keep your IMS data in IMS (high
availability,
good RAS, excellent performance) and use OTMA or ODBA to
access it from
the remote system rather than trying to port your application
and data to
a Linux system If you want to port to Linux you should
re-engineer your
They'd probably be willing to allow you to introduce yourself
by giving
a special presentation on []
Instant fame, if not fortune;-)
Well, it does tend to get one free beer and at least an occasional good
dinner8-) Fortune is probably pushing it a bit
-- db
And the angels smiled down...
Direct thanks should go to George Walsh, the technology owner for the LCS
(and other useful goodies)inside IBM. He's a smart guy, you betcha. Also to
the IBM Germany team, who did a lot of campaigning behind the scenes.
Right on, guys.
-- db
I've never tried to use DHCPCD on Linux/390. Sounds a little bizarre to
me.
Still, you might try using a Linux DHCPD server and see if it handles
things
better.
If you're using an OSA in QDIO mode, virtual hipersockets in z/VM 4.2 or
CTC/IUCV links, DHCP (server or client) will not work. It
x3270. It's pretty good, and should be on the source RPMs disk. If you need
a text-mode one, the Berkeley tn3270 text client is acceptable, but x3270 is
a lot better if you possibly can use it.
--db
What are people using for TN3270 emulation on Linux systems.
I use Red Hat
7.1
My question is if it is easy, difficult or impossible to port
large existing
S/390 applications written in assembler to run under LINUX on a 390 or
z/series platform? I am not talking about a batch
application but about a
server type application that currently uses S/390 facilities
and
You could always port Hercules to Linux/390. run zOS under Hercules
and then run the assembler systems there... grin john alvord
Been there, done that. It squeals like a pig.
-- db
PAVs have been used to a great degree by DB2 on the OS/390 side of the
zbox. I would expect that UDB on our Linux side will appreciate the
multiple exposures as well.
As would anyone working with large aggregated arrays (think large LVMs or md
RAID setups). Having PAV would help immensely
I would rank it higher than PAV. DHCP is much, much more useful. Wrt to
client or server, you need both (fortunately, most of what you need to do
either for the client or the server applies to both). You need either layer
2 frame forwarding support (the right way to do this) or UDP/TCP ip-helper
Rick Troth wrote a CMS minidisk driver for Linux that provides for
read-only access. I have not heard anything of a spool reader. Rick's
driver is available at ftp://ftp.bmc.com/pub/cmsfs/cmsfs.html
Malcolm Beattie wrote a reader/punch driver. It used to be located at
Oxford, but now that
Mark: The reason for Linux on zSeries only is that the SAP app server
requires, in almost every environment, more than 2GB of memory. I have
seen UNIX SAP environments with a LOT more than 2GB for the
app server.
I'll second this. SAP does a lot of useful stuff, but it is very, *very*
At LinuxWorld in January, we announced important new PAM capabilities for
the CA security products (CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret). Both products will
include a new built-in PAM server that works in conjunction with an
open-source PAM client to authenticate Linux users directly against
existing
Yep. Works fine.
-- db
Is anyone using Tomcat ( http://jakarta.apache.org/ ) on S/390 Linux?
We've gotten our first instance of linux up in a LPAR with miminal issues.
However we would like to back it up.
Well, in an LPAR, you don't have a lot of choices. This is where VM pays
for itself -- you don't have to reinvent all these wheels.
IBM's DFHSM does not recognize the DASD
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:36:00PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:
For backups at least, I thought Amanda did keep track of its own tapes. Am
I wrong about that?
Yes, it does, but that's exactly the point. Every application has it's
own method, and none of them share it. There is no such concept
you mirror the shared dasd to lets say dasdm make that read write ... make
your update
and then point the images that need the update to dasdm after you set it
to
Read only
For 2.2-based systems, this probably isn't practical if you cannot accept
down time for any one system (this is the
There is no difference, really. All the DASD functions are rolled into
one
driver.
Hmm. The mdisk driver does do a couple of things differently wrt to block
handling and how it interacts with VM cache under the covers. I would agree
that from the Linux perspective there is no difference.
I have been trying to get a guest lan connection going between my RedHat
2.4.9-17 system and z/VM 4.2 TCPIP by following the instructions in the
how
to at http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/guestlan.html
The qeth driver refuses to load with the error message no such device
however, the devices
08.04.2002 15:48:11 Massimiliano Belardi ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ(Á):
Wow. Cyrillic characters in email. How cool is that? 8-)
(Yes, I know, MIME. MIME good. I'm just old enough to remember the battles
on 8 bit vs 7 bit vs 6-bit characters, and despairing of ever being able to
send valid French/German
1. In SG24-6299-00 'Linux on Z/series and S390 ASP Solutions'
Dec 2001 on
page 68 it states that the Cisco CIP driver for Linux is considered
experimental. Does anyone know if this is still experimental
and therefore
possibly not very stable ?
We have found it very stable (and easy to work
I don't think he's caused anyone any aggravation. The thread
about being
aggravated was talking about receiving spam in foreign
character sets.
Sergey's posts have been anything but spam. The post that started the
thread was from David Boyes expressing his thought about how
cool
Use LISTSERV or majordomo. Both are available on Linux for 390. I prefer
Listserv, but YMMV.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
RIP ER 1900-2002 GSTQ
I'm investigating installing mailing list software (akin to
listserv or
majordomo) to manage some internal mailing lists.
Would
From the International Herald Tribune:
Microsoft backs off .Net plan
http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=155663576i=500076m=1d=2523512
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
RIP ER 1900-2002 GSTQ
On our company intranet webserver, various departments maintain their
own pages. Most utilize front page and front page publishing
features,
which unfortunately require front page server extensions which aren't
available on Linux S/390, so that stuff is stuck on an NT box for now.
The
Thanks for mentioning a possibility like this, but does this handle
frontpage components correctly? For example, if one department *click
click* inserted a form to submit email, frontpage inserts embeded
comments that are interpreted by the server extensions.
Probably not in a unmodified
As of (apparently) March 21st, the Redbook has been revised (without
incrementing the version number, contrary to normal IBM
practice), and *all*
references to Hercules have been carefully expunged!
Anyone with a clue what's going on? Suspicious of rewriting history!
Pure speculation, but I
There might be something in that, but it strikes me very much
as 'locking
the stable door' if that was the thought process which
occured: the redbook
in question has been out for over six months. Pulling the Hercules
references now seems pointless. Also, if IBM had substantive
IP concerns
Is there any configuration differences when it comes to setting up a DHCP
Server on s390 running SLES 7 compared to an Intel PC?
On the Linux side, no, but it *does* matter how the Linux system is
connected to the network. DHCP is broadcast-based, and thus if you have a
correctly configured
Internally I'm not sure if Guest LANs support what's needed
(yet?).
As of z/VM 4.2, guest LANs do not support broadcast, and thus DHCP does not
work on guest LANs.
-- db
This is going on far too long, considering this is the Linux group.
There's an unlinked copy
on my site at http://www.isham-research.com/insult.txt
Be warned - it does contain obscenities. This is not great prose.
Amusing. Pretty light-weight by Usenet standards, though -- not a single
1. For another project we are investigating if it would be
beneficial to
have a 2.4 kernel under Z/VM 4.2 and VM TCP/IP with
hipersockets and virtual
lan etc. Do current users of these mechanisms find they are
reliable and
perform well ? Or would IUCV be recommended for example ?
Comments
Hey Gang. I was wondering what exactly one can do in a native LPAR
installation of Linux, using the 2.2x kernal (I've not gotten the 2.4
distribution) from SuSE to backup their system.
With 2.2 native, you have limited options. You can attach a tape drive
to the LPAR and use dump manually,
I hope this is not too vague, but is there an established way
to send a
message from Linux S/390 that will show up in an OS/390
LPAR's logs? I
was hoping to send a message from linux to the other end of it's CTC
channel that our ops could see (and react to).
If you have syslog enabled in
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a
world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.s390.
Please DO NOT link this mailing list to a Usenet group, or do it only at
your site as a gated mailing list! The S/N ratio is high, and I'd like to
keep it that way.
The configuration of our network is such that we have a Fast
Ethernet OSA
Express adapter and it is dedicated to my Linux userid. We
have configured
Linux to use the QDIO driver. Is there a way that I can get
DHCP to work in
this environment?
Lucky you have a FE card -- you get a
See my earlier posting today wrt to using RSCS as a LPD server. Works like a
champ.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
RIP ER 1900-2002 GSTQ
One question that came up was in knowing if a
report created
by an application under LINUX/390 could end up in the VM spool?
Or use the HUJI-NJE sendfile support as a filter in /etc/printcap. With a
little hacking, this would be trivial, and you could connect the Linux
system as just another NJE node.
Guess I need to finish that JCL major mode for Emacs I was working on a
while back.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine
Has anyone tried iSCSI with S/390 ?
Yes. The limiting factor is currently network adapter performance, but it
does work for everything except IPL (duh). We're doing a bit more stress
testing internally before letting it loose on the world.
-- db
Really? As in talking to existing Fiber Channel[1] disk
arrays that speak
FC-SCSI? and/or via FC-SCSI bridges to random SCSI devices?
Where can I find
out more? I used to work on FC-attached storage array systems
at Compaq...
Yup. They were demonstrating it at LinuxWorld in NYC in January.
But - he's comparing one mid-range sun to one z/900. Seems like
the 37% people and remainder facilities would be the same in both
of those. One sun should be just about as much work/power as one
z/900.. in fact, I'd expect one mid-range sun to be a little lower
on the power/HVAC
And, if I may ask, what
do you need
RSCS and PVM for that cannot be handled by FTP or Telnet? (Given that
this is a Linux workload, not traditional apps.)
One thing might be that they're integrating a set of pre-existing management
tools to cover the VM side of the new box -- not too
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:26:39PM -0500, Holly, Jason wrote:
has anyone established mean-time-between-failure numbers for linux instances
running under vm? anything general would be good information. i'm curious
about disk, memory or other system failures that compromise the vm
instances.
what does anyone use for backup software for
linux/390...
do you use TSM under VM
See the recent discussion from about two weeks ago in the archives. TSM is
one option, CA has an option, there are open-source options such as Amanda,
and there are multiple options for full-volume dumps
Not being very familiar with either the hardware or the
software, would Raj
perhaps be able to use his 9121 in conjunction with the
vintage patches
that are available?
Sort of. It'd be a real do-it-yourself project, and most of the
commercial (ie, anything with prebuilt RPMs) software
It's used with a firewall, not in place of. A firewall is
intended to keep
the bad guys out in the first place. An IDS is designed to
figure out that
they got in anyway, and tell you what it was they messed with
while they
were there. Tripwire for instance keeps track of file sizes,
Does anyone have any references/pointers for the recommended sizing for VM
Linux images (region, cpus, etc.)?
As Rich already said, it depends a lot on what you intend to do with the
images. Keep in mind also that there are two sizing problems at hand: the
base VM instance, and the individual
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:16:07AM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
If I'm hearing your question correctly, you mean outside of the Guest Lan,
right?
Since the hardware people still need to catch up with this useful
innovation, it's still not going to fix some of the broadcast related
problems, but
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:34:21AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd expect DHCP to work within a guest LAN, but not to work to any
other guest LAN or to the outside world without some more development
to happen in terms of repeater tools and/or hardware.
Another thought on the subject of
It says that new blocks are allocated on a device when
the devices with higher priority are are exhausted. My
feeling is that you would need page migration as well
if you want to exploit a small fast swap device.
I would have to agree. Without page migration, it's pretty tough to be able
to
If y'all think that's a
Real Problem, and
not just an academic oddity, let us know and we'll take it under
advisement. (For extra credit: Devise an algorithm which constructs
world-unique virtual MAC addresses. Answers will be graded based on
originality and legibility.)
QD method
We're a Software company and have many products and many developers.
We'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways to manage
many Linux
guests in a development environment.
Options we've considered:
1. Give each development group their own Linux. Possibly a couple of
members of the
, such as the current
family of
Z servers. I'm putting that thought down, because I happen to know
that the language was originally written for creating IBM systems.
There's a loud bang, and suddenly your foot is missing, but you don't
remember enough matrix algebra to know why. (Apologies to David
Legato Announces NetWorker on IBM eServer zSeries Linux !
http://www.legato.com/corporate_info/pressroom/press.cfm?oid=000C05B9-1615-1
CD8-82A380D20B71
Perhaps this will motivate our friends at Tivoli to upgrade the TSM/VM
server. Maybe.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
RIP ER
Whether Linux works well is not dependent on the VM release, but on the
underlying hardware. It should work if you have a G2 or higher machine
running the VM 2.3 system, although a G5 machine is recommended if you want
reasonable performance.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
Make sure you have a tape drive available and install Amanda (on your CDs).
It handles this pretty well, and can be pretty well automated.
Given these two options (Or if anyone has a better idea - and
no, refusing
to go production isn't an option) what is my best course of
action? Does
I have a tape drive, but it's in a magstar. I am trying to avoid a
manually managed tape library. I have my doubts as to whether
they will
give me an independant pool of tapes. Can amanda be a tape
manager as well?
Yes, like most other Unix tape backup utilities, it includes it's own TMS
Dave ... if all they need USS for is to run SYSLOG,
I think it would make more sense to cobble together something
with TSO Pipelines:
pipe udp 514 | xlate ... | locate /string/ | console
Yeah, that would sort of work. If he's already got USS, though, then he
doesn't have to maintain
Sorry, but our 3745 doesn't handle that kind of
communications and the
The 3745 doesn't do TCP/IP?
Not all 3745 models are capable of doing TCP (particularly the older or
smaller ones). It's also insanely complicated to set up, administer, and get
it to perform reasonably.
Wrt to Alan's
See the article series in Technical Support magazine that Adam Thornton
and I wrote. There's a nice cookbook in there. http://www.naspa.com
-- db
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Andrew Marick
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 12:58 PM
We are a OS/390 shop with ZERO VM skills. The distributed
group does not
want to learn z/VM for many reasons, among them are the lack
of any usable
intro/how-to documents to get started with - the existing
pubs assume a
firm foundation or knowledge gained from attending a class.
Hmm.
David Boyes writes:
Thanks to Malcom for the tip on logger -- I hadn't seen
that one before.
Could I have my second l back in Malcolm please?
Well, you could claim it is a technological anti-duplication mechanism and
issue an injunction under the DMCA, but I might be inclined to give
in tandem. Each solution provides some nifty features that
the other one doesn't.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
What would Linux/390 as a print server do for you over RSCS with IP
connections?
Yes, I do recognize that you do need to print from Linux, but
what are the
other benefits
Asher Glynn writes:
Has anyone read a book on the Linux kernel that they would
recommend buying?
Depending on what parts of the kernel you're interested in,
Linux Device Drivers (Rubini) and Understanding the Linux Kernel
(Bovet Cesati), are worth reading. Both published by O'Reilly.
For high availability, yes. But for performance, I was *under the
impression* that Linux needs to be fooled into using the multiple
paths (haven't been able to confirm this with end-to-end performance
tests). This is done by LVM or raid-tools striping (RAID 0). *As I
understand it* the
There is no mention in the General Information manual what
this support of
for or if there are any restrictions. I am going to guess
that (almost) any
SCSI device can then be accessed by Linux for zSeries. I
would speculate
that this may be geared for large capacity tape device
support,
to preserve a few 33xx'es for VM to use as we don't have a date for when all
the S/390 operating systems will support booting and running off FC FBA
disks.
IBM was demonstrating FC support at LinuxWorld in NYC in January, but didn't
have a release date.
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
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