I've been playing with several of the new
distributions and they have one thing in common - the
size of the /usr directory is growing rapidly. In
early distributions, you could contain a zLinux system
on one 3390-3 image. Now, its taking two or three if
you need to install all the development libraries.
I am reluctant to go to larger volume images because
larger images put more data behind a subchannel and
since zLinux does not support PAV's there is a
potential performance bottleneck for the I/O.
So far, I have tried 3 approaches to contian the
problem:
1) two volume images:
/dev/dasda1 /
dasda1 /
dasda2 /usr
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Jim Sibley
Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley
"Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso
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