Adam said:
> But if you do *that* then
> there's no way you're doing a CMS RESERVE on the swap disk, which means,
> in turn, that you're using raw FBA access to the device, which is
> somewhat slower than using DIAG.
Is this unique to SUSE or is this true for all distros? We run RedHat and
have a script that runs under init.d. It formats and does a swapon. Would
it be better to do something else?
Thanks,
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Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/10/2004 06:39:58
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> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:26, Scorch Burnet wrote:
> > So, SLES8 has something like SWAPGEN built in?
>
> Dunno. Maybe its install scripts just do a mkswap /dev/hdb1 or
> whatever. SWAPGEN runs in CMS, by the way, so if you are IPLing
> directly into Linux rather than by way of CMS, you will need to do a
> mkswap at some point in the boot process. But if you do *that* then
> there's no way you're doing a CMS RESERVE on the swap disk, which means,
> in turn, that you're using raw FBA access to the device, which is
> somewhat slower than using DIAG.
>
> Unless, of course, you're running 64-bit, in which case you can't use
> DIAG, so you're back to using the VDISK as FBA in that case,
>
> Adam
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