Very much agree, as long as you know what you're doing.
--Jim--
James S. Tison
Senior Software Engineer
TPF Laboratory / Architecture
IBM Corporation
"A bird in hand is safer than one overhead."
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Linux on 390 Port
It's not that hard to manage large numbers of devices.
We have Samba servers that are 64 physical volumes. 6 for the system, and
two LVM volumes of 28 3390-9 disks for a total of 2x204 gb. We decided on
two filesystems instead of one big one in case one
gets corrupted. We can restore the bad one, while the users on the other
keep running.
You can script the dasd initialization process and let it run unattended.
It takes the better part of a day to format that much dasd, but dasdfmt is
the long bit. Creating the partitions, running
pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, is quick. mkfs is a few minutes.
