Timothy, I real don't see an issue with calling a drive formatted as standard FBA an Open System drive. It may be used by anything that conforms to the SCSI standard.
AS400 and MVS (and possibly others) do not use a standard FBA SCSI standard device, ipso facto they need an exotic format to operate. The fact that Windows LUN can share a parity group with a Linux LUN doesn't make the FBA format any less "Open". I don't think that Hitachi have bastardised the meaning of "Open Systems" just because private systems can use these logical devices also. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 3:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Disk vs Tape scenario > > >Open Systems is Hitachi parlance for drives formatted in FBA format and > used > >by Linux, UNIXen, and Windows. I don't see that we need to change 10 > years > >of convention. > > So when z/OS uses FBA (as z/VSE, z/VM, and Linux already do), is > everything an "open system" in the storage world? > > I suppose it's one shortcoming of mine, starting with the common meaning > of a term before moving onto the one some IT people use. :-) > > - - - - - > Timothy F. Sipples > Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries > IBM Japan, Ltd. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
