On Tuesday, 08/08/2006 at 01:29 AST, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be a great boon to all of us (VM, VSE, Linux) if EMC and STK > and IBM would give us an FBA handle on SAN volumes. Think about it! SAN > on one side, which can talk to z/VM and to zLinux, but also to Solaris, > AIX, Windows, but then also FBA to z/VM and to zLinux as FBA without > EDEV overhead. (Don't get me wrong: EDEV is great, but it's a hack, and > it's heavy.)
Rick, all that does is drive up the price. The FBA architecture simply has not kept up with ECKD and there'd be a whole boat-load of work to be done to bring it up to snuff. Heck, even RESERVE/RELEASE is not architected for FBA. And there's a lot of the advanced disk functions that require CKD specifications. All of that would have be enhanced as well. The fact that z/OS isn't into FBA must also be considered, affecting the marketability. I just don't see where the business value is to be found. I do understand the elegance of what you propose, but that's not good enough any more. There was a time, though.... Could it be faster? Sure. How much faster? Is it fast *enough* as-is? Alan Altmark 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
