The big win(s) are: - Linux support can decide how big filesystems are without having VM support adjust minidisk sizes for each filesystem. - The space can be 'grown' by just adding another volume (minidisk) -- without LVM - all you can do is define a larger area - copy everything to it - then dump the old (smaller) are. Once you reach a full pack minidisk -- you've got nowhere to go without LVM anyway.
Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that was how we were thinking to approch it since fdisk / hard > partition style slicing is so inflexible. As David pointed out ECKD > limits it to Three. > > I, as a VM guy first, don't really see the big win over just using > mdisks, but I suppose since we have no dirmaint / directory/ vmsecure > bits it would allow most of the VM's management to occur from the > Linux side of things. > > Steve Carl > Blog: on-being-open.blogspot.com > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Why not use LVM with one large minidisk and use logical volumes to >> 'partition'? That way you can use a single partition on the >> minidisk(s) >> and divide it up as you like on Linux... >> >> Scott Rohling >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Steve Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Ron and I have been talking about some things he wants to add next: >>> Main >>> one >>> is the ability to support single disk slices: Right now the product >>> uses >>> separate mdisks per FS. easy enough in VM of course, but some >>> coming at it >>> from a pure Linux background would like the various disk paritions >>> on the >>> same virtual volume. >>> >>> >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
