>>> On 9/26/2008 at 2:27 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mary Elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all that responded, > > You are so so smart. I increased the storage and I was amazed. The > filesystem mounted. In 3270 it didn't tell you anything. It just sat > there.
If what I think was happening (thrashing), that would be expected. If you had let it go long enough, it probably would have eventually mounted, but your system wouldn't have been very usable even at that point. -snip- > I have one more question though - I noticed whenever I attached the > SCSI/FBA device to the linux guest the address automatically came online to > the guest. > > I don't understand how this happens. Does anyone have any ideas??? I'm not intimate with the details, but from what I know, I would have to say that SCSI (or ATA, or SATA for that matter) doesn't support the concept of online/offline. It's either there, or it's not, and if it's there, the system build the control blocks to use it. That's a reasonable thing to do, even in a shared environment, because the system is only allowed to "see" the devices it is supposed to see by the storage administrator. Unlike FICON devices where you can see everything on the channel that's defined to the LPAR, and you want to pick and choose which devices are used. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
