On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > It is absolutely feasible, and one way to ensure some consistency (sort of). > Marist College writes a Linux/390 kernel to the 191 disk of their guests, > which punch it to the reader and IPL from it when the guests get logged on. >
So, for the sake of (say) 4 Mbytes of disk shared by everyone, you could have a recovery system instantly accessble to all your 40,000 virtual machines? Seems a fine way to go;-) > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problem: DIAG vs ECKD - Yast hangs > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, James Peddycord wrote: > > > I will give that a shot, but now I am worried about bigger things! PAV was > > turned on to ALL of our DASD last December. The linux instances that were > > already running seem to be OK, but if a problem arises I will be left with > > no support. > > All of my boot disks have PAV enabled! > > This looks like something to run up the IBM support ladder, because I > think > > that it is a priority to have the drivers updated for PAV. > > Is it feasible to IPL from (virtual) tape? > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
