Dateline, Endicott, NY, Tuesday, August 8, 2006: Today Alan Altmark acknowledged the elegance of FBA DASD.
Troth pake: > > It would be a great boon to all of us (VM, VSE, Linux) if EMC > > and STK and IBM would give us an FBA handle on SAN volumes. Think > > about it! SAN on one side, which can talk to z/VM and to zLinux, > > but also to Solaris, AIX, Windows, but then also FBA to z/VM and > > to zLinux as FBA without EDEV overhead. ... Sir Alan rebuffed: > Rick, all that does is drive up the price. ... > Heck, even RESERVE/RELEASE is not > architected for FBA. And there's a lot of the advanced disk functions > that require CKD specifications. ... I accept the RESERVE/RELEASE point and other advanced function. > I just don't see where the business value is to be found. I do understand > the elegance of what you propose, but that's not good enough any more. > There was a time, though.... Business value: bah! 1999 was a very good year. That was the year a small New York based company considered the business case for porting and supporting an open source kernel to/on their mainframe hardware. Do you want me to go on enumerating elegant solutions for which there was no business case? True: Plenty of them never saw the light of day. But plenty others did make it. And there was no business case, or small biz case at best. There was a time, though, and we've probably lost that time. The world is going inSAN. But perhaps the VM lab is way ahead this time. Probably. They are pretty clueful. (And ... Pookie has a clue too.) If this be the case, then I want to see the syntax for ACCESS of a SAN volume. I want to see the MDISK statement for slicing up SAN. Frankly, the whole IPL game has gotten pretty messy. > Could it be faster? Sure. How much faster? Is it fast *enough* as-is? It's not about speed, or "enough" would be enough. It's about eliminating silliness, good sir knight. -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
