I have consolidated information and my opinions about shared R/W minidisks (along with an explanation of MWV and RESERVE/RELEASE) at http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/linkmw.html.
If there's more information you would like to see there, please don't hesitate to ask. I did this to give us a reference, rather than trying to explain it every few months. Regards, Alan Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group Phone: +1-607-429-3323 Mobile: +1-607-321-7556 e-mail: alan_altm...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/