This could vary by what's running on the Linux machine, but I would usually create a root file system of about 600-1000 cylinders and a shared /usr of about 1500-2000 cylinders. The sharing can be over NFS, even though after the install it shouldn't change much.
Paging to a virtual disk is still in vogue and the size depends again upon the application. I will typically use 32, 64, 128 or 256 MB virtual disks. I have one customer that didn't like the idea of sharing, so SLES 7 was installed and cloned on individual 1000 cylinder root file systems. With virtual disk swapping. In this case, if more disk is needed, it is easy to add and create a mount point. After a very minimal install, there is still about 40-50% of disk space available. On Tuesday 14 January 2003 10:44 am, you wrote: > Seems like these ROT's change over time :o) > > What is the latest recommendation for minidisk layout > for Linux install under zVM? (i.e. number of mdisks, sizes and purpose). > > What is latest swapfile size recommendation when running under zVM? > > (I'm installing SuSE SLES8 31bit) > > Thanks, > > Dave Myers > Senior Systems Engineer > Denver Solutions Group > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IM: dmyersDSG > Office: 303 996 7112 > Mobile: 303 619 0782 > Fax: 303 706 1713 -- Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
