The largest ECKD volume I've seen anyone define was 100G. Most people just give up on ECKD disk and use FCP disk for chunks larger than a mod 54 -- too much hassle to manage LVM devices to get large contiguous chunks.
> Somewhat off topic - my storage admins are looking at defining the largest > reasonable CKD device for a DS8300. We currently use Mod-3, 9, 27, and 54 > definitions and would like to know what is a useful very large size in the > real > world for large, less-heavily-used devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
