On Nov 3, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Has anyone successfully "moved" data on a SCSI disk from a Linux
guest under z/VM to an Intel machine simply by redefining the LUN?
That is, if you have the right Shark and the right kinds of
connections to both the zSeries and an Intel machine (dedicated FCP
subchannels attached to a Linux guest), *in theory* one would think
you could have (say) a database on a minidisk, shut down the VM
guest, redefine the LUN so it's now accessible from an Intel Linux
box running the same DBMS, mount it, and use the data.
In talking with IBM, including Steve Wilkins, nobody has been able
to say "This will definitely work". The issue is that VM is going
to want to put an allocmap, label, etc. on the disk, and Intel
isn't likely to know what to make of that.
So...anyone done this? Or have additional info that might help?
Linux has all manner of funky stuff in the disk partitions section of
the kernel config. If you have both S/390 disklabels and Intel
formats built into the kernel, it might just work.
Then again, it might not. Let us know what happens.
Adam
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