>>> On 1/13/2011 at 02:41 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS <[email protected]> >>> wrote: > Now time has come to migrate to another storage system. I was wondering > what other folks do. > > 1. Do they have a whole bunch of mod9 and mod3 drives that they allocate > to their guests? > > 2. Do they take mod27 drives (someone at SHARE warned me about taking > mod54 drives) and use mdisk to carve them up into something smaller.
I see very little value in having 3390-3 drives for Linux use. Depending on how big or small a system image is, I would go with a 3390-9 or -27, and put three partitions on it: 1. / file system (around 500MB or so) 2. Swap (fall-back for VDISK) 3. LVM (holds all of /home, /opt, /srv, /tmp, /usr, and /var) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
