>>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:36 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > One of the origional posts was on the pros and cons of vdisk. No one > brought up that it is a shared resource, in a shared environment. > Anytime you abuse a shared resource, it will cause performance problems > with all other guests. Vdisk isn't free or worry free. That is the > jist of the discussion from my point of view.
The whole point of z/VM is sharing resources. Explain how VDISK is any different from the rest of them. The systems programmer has absolute control over how resources are shared. If bad things happen because a guest actually uses what it was granted, the problem lies not with the fact that the guest used it, but with the systems programmer. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
