Neale Ferguson wrote: > xip2 is a file system that appears as ext2 but resides in a DCSS when > running under z/VM. To execute the programs you execute straight from > the DCSS without having to move the data from the filesystem. You mmap > directly to the page(s) in the DCSS. This means that all your virtual > servers *can* share this filesystem and only have 1 copy of the > library/executable. This can mean huge space savings in virtual memory > for your entire z/VM system. I believe there are a couple of > presentations up on linuxvm.org dealing with this. There were a couple > of sessions at last week's SHARE conference. Yea, but this implementation is different from the "old" one in Sles9 and Sarge. The effect is the very same. --
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