>>> On 3/30/2012 at 11:31 AM, Lee Stewart <lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net> >>> wrote: > I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM > guest. I can see real use for it in an LPAR where you may have > thousands of devices that have nothing to do with the Linux instance. > But in a virtual machine I only give it the devices I want it to have in > the first place.
I'm guessing this is a Red Hat customer, correct? (I'm pretty sure we don't ship that as a default). I can't/won't speak for Red Hat, but like you I don't see a good reason to do that in a z/VM guest by default. Since the distribution provider can't know ahead of time what environment is going to be used for the install, it's not a bad default. LPAR customers tend to have thousands of devices genned, as you said. I think for a z/VM guest, it would be safe to remove it. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
