On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > after reading several articles about Mainframes and similar archs > (even ancient ones like B7000), I wonder if Linux world could > learn something from there. > > One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction. > AFAIK, Mainframes work on one large virtual memory (disks for > swapping out RAM, tapes for swapping out disks, etc). > This way you just allocate some piece of space (like some virtual > partition) to an application (of guest). If you need more space, > just plug in more disks and the OS will handle all this > automatically. > > I'm currently planning to implement an similar approach for Linux > (at least virtual block devices). > > What do you think about this ?
I believe these concepts are to a large degree implemented in an existing product. It's called ZFS. Pity about the license though. We are out in the cold. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
