> Hi, I am trying to figure out what is best setup for us. We would like to use > thin provisioning which is available on XIV (on our FCP LUNs). > Unfortunately it does not work very good with ext3 file system. To reclaim > some space I have to "zero out" free space first (after removing files) and > than it takes weeks(!) for XIV to reclaim some unused space. > > XIV redbooks suggest using Veritas Storage Fundation which is unavailable > in sles11 for Z.
Try xfs. XFS seems to play nice with the XIVs. > I wonder if oracle would mind hmmm (they hate whenever we do > something different). Something different that they can't charge for, anyway. (8-|) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/
