On Sunday, 05/19/2002 at 03:02 AST, Dave Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is confusing....can you expand on your reply... > If I still need ECKD for Z/VM, > then how does this new feature benefit > the Linux environment...since most of us > will be running Linux under z/VM??
It means that your Linux guests can access all of that SCSI-resident data, but the data on those devices is meaningless to z/VM itself. Maybe someday VM will itself be able to use SCSI instead of ECKD, but that day has not yet arrived. And as there is not yet any way to boot from SCSI (from zSeries), the Linux kernel must also be booted from ECKD. Once booted, Linux can then mount the SCSI drives. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
