Not to throw you a curve but you could sort of do both at the same time: In the guest's USER DIRECT definition, instead of DEDICATE vdev rdev Which would dedicate the whole rdev dasd device to the guest but then your backup utility can't LINK a DEDICATE-d device for backups,
You could instead do MDISK vdev DEVNO rdev .... That way the guest has the whole device independent of its volid (like DEDICATE) plus your backup utility can LINK the vdev MDISK for backup/restores. To protect CP at IPL-time from the potential for duplicate volid issues you would have all the DEVNO rdev's OFFLINE_AT_IPL and have AUTOLOG1's PROFILE EXEC VARY ON rdevx-rdevy -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Stewart Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MDISK vs DEDICATED DASD Hi all, Wondering if anyone can tell me whether or not there is an advantage or a reason or a disadvantage to using MDISKs for Linux servers if I intend to turn off the MDC, verses using dedicated disks. I intend to use the entire disks and not split them up. Thanks in advance. Ryan Stewart Systems Programmer Indian River Community College [EMAIL PROTECTED] 772-462-7310 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
