Yeah, what Rich said. I keep telling our storage people not to give me any mod 27's because of the lack of PAV. They think I'm a pain :)
Marcy Cortes WFS Enterprise Hosting Services - VM & Linux This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 17:42 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Latest on PAV's? Devil, Minidisks here. Alan Altmark wrote: > On Tuesday, 04/05/2005 at 12:51 PDT, Barton Robinson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Has anyone outside of ibm actually implemented PAV >>for Linux? From everything i've seen, the requirement >>is in VM, not Linux. > > > Are folks getting excessive device queuing on CP-owned volumes in their > production environments? From what I read here, it seems like relatively > few people put Linux data on minidisks, preferring (for a variety of > reasons) to use fullpack minidisks or volumes carved to size. And our > paging rates (without PAV) are nothing to sneeze at. > > I'm not arguing against PAV, but I'm curious whether the benefit of PAV > for CP-owned volumes would be real or just wishful thinking. > > Alan Altmark > Devil's Advocate > 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 > -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (866)569-7378 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2005 - Colorado Springs - May 20-24, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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
