On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, John Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the VM context, Linux is just another program. Minidisks are just VM > files, so it's VM question you ask, not Linux. Really, the application or Operating System does make a difference. When done right, CMS applications have no problem to operate in a situation where one is writing and many are reading. Only multiple users writing at the same time is a bad thing. But some applications and operating systems in this arena also are happy doing with multiple writers (eg SFS, RACF/VM, VSE, MVS guests, etc). When we say something "hurts" the application, we typically mean performance degradation (for data corruption the word is not strong enough). And clearly performance aspects do separate apples from oranges. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
