Please, Alan, could you explain me, what do you mean in a "reasonable" way? I don't understand the difference between Tape usage and drive usage. And sorry, I don't want to spend your time.
Ariel El mii, 11 de 06 de 2003 a las 16:33, Alan Altmark escribis: > On Wednesday, 06/11/2003 at 08:50 ZE2, Paul Wilkinson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The UTS Global Tape Services Suite (TSS) for Linux/390 will > > accomplish this task, specifically the Tape Management > > Subsystem and Distributed Tape Subsystem products. > > > > Please see http://www.utsglobal.com/linuxprod.html for details. > > > > Feel free to contact me/us off-list if you require any further > > information. > > > > As Mark Post mentioned earlier, Phil's SHARE presentation on > > this subject is available at http://linuxvm.org/Present/ > > If the driver handles the assign/unassign in a reasonble way, then z/VM > 4.3's shared tape support (CP ATTACH ... MULTIUSER...) allows multiple > guests to share a tape drive without having to ATTACH/DETACH it. By > "reasonable" I mean that drive assignment is done only for the duration of > tape, not drive, usage. > > Alan Altmark > Sr. Software Engineer > IBM z/VM Development
