I'm trying to break up a RedHat Linux image so that some of the major pieces of software reside on their own disks, with the thought of sharing them as read-only minidisks between several images. I had a problem during the install, and have called the IBM support center about it, but in the process of discussing the problem, when I told him my ultimate intentions, his response was Oh, you can't do that. It's not supported; you have to use NFS for that."
This really took me by surprise, because, unless Linux just flat won't work with a read-only disk, I'd think that'd be the way to share things... I mean,... It's VM, right? Why incur the overhead for NFS when you could just read the minidisk directly. And one image wouldn't really even know the other image was sharing the device... Am I way off base? ---- Robert P. Nix internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Clinic phone: 507-284-0844 200 1st St. SW page: 507-255-3450 Rochester, MN 55905 ---- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
