But if one of them is faster, you will be slowed down
to speed of slower one of course.

Marian

--- "Romanowski, John (OFT)"
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> It's OK to use FBA disks in a LVM volume group that
> has CKD disks in it.
> If Make the FBA's LVM physical extent (PE) size the
> same as the CKD's PE
> size.
> 
> 
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> From: Linux on 390 Port
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Susan Zimmerman
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:59 PM
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> Subject: LVM - can both CKD and FBA reside in same
> volume group?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to this, so my terminology may be incorrect.
> 
> 
> We are primarily z/OS but have recently delved in to
> SuSE (SLES9)
> running as a guest under z/VM 5.1.
> Up until now we've used ECKD but will be installing
> a DS8100 formatted
> as FBA (SCSI over FCP).  Cloning guests is painless
> and quick on CKD,
> but am told cloning FCP-attached SCSI Linux systems
> is more
> complicated.  Currently our "master image" resides
> on 2 3390-9s , and
> except for /boot, is defined in one volume group. 
> This relatively
> small system can then be propogated with each Linux
> instance needed.
> It takes about 30-45 minutes to create a new Linux
> image.
> 
> 
> Once a Linux image is built, if additional space is
> needed we're hoping
> we can simply add the larger SCSI disk to the volume
> group.  I am
> having a hard time finding information on mixing
> disk architecture in
> an LVM.  Since the CKD is emulating FBA, does LVM
> even care that it is
> CKD as opposed to FBA?
> 
> 
> Is anyone out there doing this?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> 
> Susan
> 
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