On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 08:54, Davis, Larry wrote: > I know this has been discussed, but what was the final outcome. Should we > use EXT2 or EXT3 block size 1024 or 4096 for space allocation on zlinux
Depends. 1K blocks will be slower but less wasteful of space if you have lots of files smaller than 4K. > I am getting ready to start a POC on a z-800 IFL and it looks like I am > throwing DASD at the LINUX images. Does your z800 have the right microcode and the right FICON to do zSCSI? > We are also looking at LVM as a way to get larger File system space and > share those volumes across several Linux ID's under z/VM, as opposed to NFS > > Any suggestions LVM works fine. It's not especially fast, but it does the trick well enough. Still, in the long haul, for a zBox needing big DASD, consider SCSI. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
