On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM, RPN01 <nix.rob...@mayo.edu> wrote: > Since you got no replies, I took a quick look at the site. Since it creates > a read-only mount, I don't see how you're going to hurt anything, so that > would eliminate any of the "scary" portion, in terms of Sysplex membership > concerns.
Mounting R/O does not prevent Linux from doing a reserve against the volume. Sure, as long as you run Linux on z/VM you can stop writes just there. I do recall stories from people playing with Linux in LPAR and holding a reserve on the RACF database for example... Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/