On Monday, 12/07/2009 at 08:46 EST, John Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> Presumably if you're updating the slushware, you have to shut down > everything anyway, the question is whether it's all at once or staged. > Unless (and I don't know this) you can migrate the running system to > different hardware (real or virtual) without IPL. We could almost do > this in the 70s on the 3168 (one could take out half an MP, but only one > half, not one at a time). Back in September, support for Linux suspend/resume on System z was integrated into the upstream kernel, to be picked up in future distros. You can Read All About It in the latest Device Driver and Command Reference book. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
