David, the way we envision we could operate PAV devices would work for different storage attachment technologies than ESCON/FICON too ... :-)
Best regards, Ingo ********************************************************************** Ingo Adlung, Linux for zSeries - Strategy & Design The box said, 'Requires Windows95 or better', ...so I installed LINUX. David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 13.03.2002 12:14:39 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] PAV Support - any requirement for it ? > 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 with some I/O related bottlenecking on such setups). Introducing something like this for OpenFCP-attached storage would be a very useful concept. -- db
