Well, two things. I thought you had to have a writable A disk for CMS? And we do need a redhat.conf file on there when we kickstart the linux, not so much afterwards. MA
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:45 PM, RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're just IPLing CMS to set things up and then IPL Linux, is there > really a reason to have multiple 191 minidisks? We share a single read/only > 191 minidisk among all the Linux guests, in both LPARs. They all end up > IPLing 391, and we've added a piece to the profile that looks for userid() > exec, and executes it, if found, as part of the process, allowing for the > more odd of the Linux images to still share the one 191 minidisk. > > If you can do it with one, it seems a shame to have all those one cyl > minidisks hanging around everywhere. Plus, if you need to make a change to > something in the way they're brought up, you can do it in one place, instead > of having to link and fix hundreds of them. > > -- > Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. > RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ > 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ > ----- ^^-^^ > "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but > in practice, theory and practice are different." > > > > > On 10/28/08 11:13 AM, "Mary Anne Matyaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all. We're bouncing around an idea to change the way we allocate > Linux guests. Currently, we have a mdisk that > has all of the Linux 191 disks on. We then have separate 200 disks > (mod9's). We're thinking of combining the two, such > that we have a 1 cylinder 191 mdisk, then 10015 cylinders for the 200 > disks. This would allow us to move the linuxes from > one lpar to another as needed. It would also make them more self-contained. > We're facing a dasd upgrade in the near future, > and this would make that a little easier. > Other than the fact that the 200 disk is backed up by TSM and the 191's via > MVS's FDR, can you guys shoot some holes > in this theory? Let me know if you see any other problem areas that I > haven't thought of? > > Thanks! > MA > > >
