On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 08:58:12AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > This is my first attempt (in many years) to install Linux (Debian this > time) on zSystem. We have a new zBC12 with 56GB and 2CP & 1IFL. I've > gone through the install a number of times and ran into road blocks, > particularly on how to setup my 6 3390-3s. I've done some RAID 0, LVM, > but still had some problems (ZIPL was the big one, something about / fs > had to be the first encountered). > > I believe if I use (software) RAID 0, I can't extend it. So, I'm think > LVM on everything except / and /boot. I have / and /boot on the first > DASD (200) as 2.4GB and 60MB respectively. I plan on having all of the > others in Volume Groups within LVM. With LVM I can extend the size of > the fs's as the need arises.
You only need to separate out /boot outside of LVM. (RHEL states in their docs that their zipl works with / on LVM, maybe our s390-tools isn't enough or maybe they have custom patches.) If you do two partitions on the boot disk, one for boot and one for LVM, that should work fine. And you can then add the other disks to the LVM volume groups. I'd suggest 256M for /boot, though. @Mark Post: If nobody even tinkers with Debian on z, it will certainly die. This may or may not be in your interest. :) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
