I will have zVM own the XIV Storage Pool and associated LUNS. The only xplatform access to them would be via NFS.
That should address ENDIAN issues. Thanks, Gerard -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 1:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: XIV on LoZ ??? On Sunday, 11/21/2010 at 08:57 EST, "Shockley, Gerard C" <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there any pertinent reds on the subject of zVM and Linux XIV implementation > in a shared SYSTEM z and SYSTEM P? What you describe isn't particular to XIV, but to any SCSI implementation. Be aware that the same applications on different architectures may store binary values with native endianness, creating incompatibilities. I think POWER can go both ways, as it were, but I don't know how it is influenced. I have seen the same app running on zLinux that cannot (correctly) read the files created by the same app on xLinux. If the app is designed to store data in a platform-agnostic format, you should be ok. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 [email protected] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
