I tried to add the (ro) flag to the parmfile, but it interfered with a vdisk that I had later in the parameter. I have a 205 minidisk as the last in my list (dasd=591-597,205 for the maintenance server) and I tried dasd=591-592,593(ro),594-597,205 for my production servers. This did get an extra message about 593 being flagged as read-only, but it also flagged 205 as read-only and stopped my ability to use it as swap. This is a TurboLinux 2.4.7 system.
/Thomas Kern /(301)903-2211 -----Original Message----- From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can Linux disks on VM be shared read-only? It is possible to share a disk r/o among multiple images. We're doing it with 14 SUSE SLES7 images sharing a common /usr disk under VM. This is the 294 disk in our setup. There are several "gotcha's", though. <...snipped...> Also, each image should use this in the parmfile, or /etc/zipl.conf, or whatever to ensure that the 294 is to be used r/o by Linux: ... dasd=293,292,294(ro),295-29F ... <...snipped...>
