CAVMEN Meeting on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - Agenda Update - Session added

2005-06-21 Thread Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts
A 3:30pm session has been added. Please see the agenda below. -- Meeting Location: This quarter's meeting will be held at the Hewitt Associates 'East Campus' located at 100 Half Day Road, in Lincolnshire, IL. We will meet in Conference Room 100-M3, just off the Cafeteria. If you

Re: Fwd: SLES9 losing network connectivity

2005-06-21 Thread Kurt Verhofstadt
Do you have QIOASSIST on ? After setting NOQIOASSIST on the OSA addresses, we got rid of a similar problem under zVM440. 'DEDICATE 710 710 NOQIOASSIST'. There should be some pfts comming soon. Regards, Kurt. - Confidentiality Notice - This communication and the information it contains is

AW: Fwd: SLES9 losing network connectivity

2005-06-21 Thread Leonard Janus
HI, the QIOASSIST problem occured in our installation with VM440. We installed PTFs: UM31170, UM31340, UM31370 Due to the conversion to VM510 we ran only 3 weeks with these ptf's - without a new occurrence of the error. VM510 was shipped with the appropriate ptf's installed (I don't know the

Re: AW: Fwd: SLES9 losing network connectivity

2005-06-21 Thread Brian France
At 05:47 AM 6/21/2005, you wrote: HI, the QIOASSIST problem occured in our installation with VM440. We installed PTFs: UM31170, UM31340, UM31370 Due to the conversion to VM510 we ran only 3 weeks with these ptf's - without a new occurrence of the error. VM510 was shipped with the appropriate

New URL for Linux on zSeries developerWorks web pages

2005-06-21 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Some of you may already have noticed that the Linux on zSeries developerWorks-pages are available at the new URL: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/ Some time later today (Tuesday 2005-06-21), re-directs from our old URLs will start to be effective, re-routing links to

Install problem again

2005-06-21 Thread Selen Claes
Hi, I can´t get by the initrd 75% problem when installing. I got an answer tht it is a relative path problem. I use NFS and mounts the /space/SLES9 Here is ls -l # ls -l /space/SLES9 total 18 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 19 Feb 2 16:09 boot - sles9-i386/CD1/boot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: Install problem again

2005-06-21 Thread Daniel Jarboe
I can´t get by the initrd 75% problem when installing. Is this for x86? Was a little confused at all the i386 talk in your email. Otherwise, this sounds similar to an experience we recently had. When using either the SLES9 or SLES9-SP1 installation images the process would hang with zipl

Redbook From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two Days is available

2005-06-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello list, The redbook z/VM and Linux on zSeries: From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two Days is on the Web (finally! 52 days late) at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246695.html The files associated with this book are on the Web at: ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG246695/ The book

Linux 2.6 and zVM 4.4

2005-06-21 Thread Thomas Broman
Hi I've noticed that Linux kernel 2.6 requires zVM 4.4. Can someone tell me what support , in short words, 2.6 needs in 4.4 that 4.3 lacks. TIA Thomas Broman Systems Engineer Pulsen Productions AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For

Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread Joe Nocket
We are migrating a DB2-UDB LINUX/390 SLES 7 server with the EXT2 filesystem to a SLES 9 server. Because of the nature and size of the databases we encounter a lot of issues with the 2 GIG file size limit (database containers, backups to disk, export and load files etc.). The long restarts after a

Re: Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread McKown, John
Hearsay says that ReiserFS is a very poor performer on the zSeries. EXT3 would be easiest because EXT3 is simply EXT2 + journelling. You can convert your EXT2 to EXT3 in place. But I don't understand the comment about the 2 Gb file size limit. I no longer have Linux on zSeries, but there is no

Re: Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread Joe Nocket
We only have Linux on zSeries and at SLES 7 with EXT2 there is a 2G file size limitation. I'm assuming EXT3 being EXT2 and journel would not get us over the size limit -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, June 21,

Re: Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread Fargusson.Alan
There is not a 2G file size limit on EXT2. I suspect that you are using an old version of DB2 that is not compiled with large file support. If this is true then it does not matter what filesystem you use. Another possibility is that you are using a very old kernel. I think the 2.2 kernel

Re: Linux 2.6 and zVM 4.4

2005-06-21 Thread Little, Chris
I haven't seen anything as such. I ran a 2.6 kernel while on 4.3. -Original Message- From: Thomas Broman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:59 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Linux 2.6 and zVM 4.4 Hi I've noticed that Linux kernel 2.6 requires zVM 4.4.

Re: Linux 2.6 and zVM 4.4

2005-06-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 06/21/2005 at 03:58 ZE2, Thomas Broman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that Linux kernel 2.6 requires zVM 4.4. Where did you see this, Thomas? Can you point me to a URL? Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: Linux 2.6 and zVM 4.4

2005-06-21 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I'm z/VM 4.2 running SLES9 with SP1. Do you have any indication on what kind of problems I may be having running Linux? I'm not saying that I don't have problems, just I'm not sure what problems are mine and what problems are due to z/VM 4.2G. The only think I can think of is in the realm of

3390 mod 9

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Lovins
Can someone tell me if SUSE 8.0 will recognize a 3390 mod 9 disk drive or not? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: 3390 mod 9

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Lovins
Thanks for the info. Does SuSE pick them up as mod 9 or do you configure them as mod 9? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/21/2005 11:09:13 AM yep. 3390-3 3390-9 3390-27. use all of them here. -Original Message- From: Mike Lovins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:08 AM To:

Re: AW: Fwd: SLES9 losing network connectivity

2005-06-21 Thread Darren Zamrykut
Thanks, I will give the NOQIOASSIST a try and get back with the results. Regards, Darren On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:47, Leonard Janus wrote: HI, the QIOASSIST problem occured in our installation with VM440. We installed PTFs: UM31170, UM31340, UM31370 Due to the conversion to VM510 we

Re: 3390 mod 9

2005-06-21 Thread Little, Chris
It really doesn't know what a mod x is. Just see is as dasd with 10017 (16?) cylinders. -Original Message- From: Mike Lovins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:16 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 3390 mod 9 Thanks for the info. Does SuSE pick them up as

FCP tapes

2005-06-21 Thread Sue Sivets
Has anyone tried adding FCP tapes to linux. I was able to add FCP dasd to Suse v8 and I'm in the process of adding them to Suse v9, but I'm getting nothing but error messages when I try to add an FCP tape device to either system. I suspect, but I'm not sure, that I've probably got a problem with

Re: 3390 mod 9

2005-06-21 Thread Carlos A Bodra
Sure, since SUSE 7.0 recognize it. Carlos Alberto Bodra S/390 System Programmer Sao Paulo - Brazil -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Lovins Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:08 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 3390 mod 9 Can

Re: 3390 mod 9

2005-06-21 Thread Post, Mark K
Yes, it will. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Lovins Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:08 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 3390 mod 9 Can someone tell me if SUSE 8.0 will recognize a 3390 mod 9 disk drive or not?

Re: 3390 mod 9

2005-06-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:07:30AM -0500, Mike Lovins wrote: Can someone tell me if SUSE 8.0 will recognize a 3390 mod 9 disk drive or not? Yes. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread Post, Mark K
The ext3 file system does not have that limitation when running on a 2.6 kernel. In your place, I would be using ext3. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Nocket Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:20 AM To:

Re: Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread Joe Nocket
We did some experimenting and found that it's DB2 (V7) that has the 2G file size limitation and not the ext2 filesystem, I believe DB2 V8 will lift this restriction. We are probably going to use ext3, but I am still curious if anyone has any experience using JFS on zSeries Linux since it's IBM

Re: Which file system?

2005-06-21 Thread Little, Chris
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/perf/tuning_res_journal ing.html#begin or if you get a line break in that . . . http://tinyurl.com/8fg67 -Original Message- From: Joe Nocket [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:21 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

risk if I relabel an LVM DASD Volume

2005-06-21 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
Question: would my volume-group and logical-volume (LVM) be in trouble if I re-label one or more of the physical volumes allocated to the lv? I forgot to label the volumes when I created them and my zOS guy is getting them in his reports (bad label). We use zOS DF/DSS for backups so I am very

Re: risk if I relabel an LVM DASD Volume

2005-06-21 Thread Little, Chris
My initial guess is that it doesn't use the volume label. I know that you can change device numbers, and device names and lvm will still find it. However, don't take my word for it. i've screwed up before. -Original Message- From: Uriel Carrasquilla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: /tmp as a logical volume

2005-06-21 Thread Little, Chris
go for it. you'll be fine. you'll have the same risks as any other mounted filesystem. -Original Message- From: Uriel Carrasquilla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:10 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: /tmp as a logical volume We have /tmp as part of

Re: risk if I relabel an LVM DASD Volume

2005-06-21 Thread Betsie Spann
I have run fdasd against LVM minidisks and recreated the VTOC from 0x0300 (for example) to a standard pack name that can be read by the z/OS systems. Betsie Little, Chris wrote: My initial guess is that it doesn't use the volume label. I know that you can change device numbers, and device

Re: /tmp as a logical volume

2005-06-21 Thread Post, Mark K
I build all my systems with /tmp separate from /. That goes for Linux/390 and Intel Linux. SLES9 will handle it nicely. I'm beginning to have doubts about LVM (version 1 at least) on 64-bit systems. I've had two cases where my volume groups have disappeared after an IPL, and hence all my