-----Original Message----- We may be looking at attaching a part of a new Shark 800 as FCP attached dasd for z/Linux.
1. Will a FCP attached Shark, running under z/VM 5.1, participate in VM's MDC? - If used as emulated FBA devices, yes. If used natively, no. 2. Will a FCP attached Shark, running under z/VM 5.1, be able to do FlashCopys? - Using Copyservices utility (on another platform other than z/VM) should allow you to do flashcopy (v1 or v2). I think you need a Lintel box connected to the SAN to run Copyservices. I'm not sure there's one for Linux on zSeries. If not, that is a serious limitation to running FCP attached Sharks on the mainframe. But then, I still lean towards Ficon attachment anyway, just because it is more familiar with less "unknowns". - If you would like to allocated a 100GB slab of disk space without having to jump through the hoops of concatenating multiple 3390-27 units via LVM then you have a good reason for using FCP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
