I recognized this after trying it to set it up. The second guest that was using the link was in r/o mode and all of a sudden the implications became clear. But thanks for pointing it out.
Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:21 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Nedd some help undersdtanding vdisk On 4/29/09 10:28 AM, "Bob Bates" <robert.ba...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > They are not because each is defined separately. From User2 try LINK User1 700 > 701 RR and see what that gets you. > > Just like all the users having 191, that doesn't mean they are shared with one > another. Although you should NOT share disks used for Linux swap. You CAN link them from another virtual machine, but the ids need to provide some method of telling each other who has control of the disk at any given point. Linux does not do this, and Very Very Bad Things will happen if you share a swap disk.
