Re: Hosting Linux partitions on IBM i -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Hosting Linux partitions on IBM i
From: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:00:48 +0200
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Hello Jerry,

Am 06.10.2020 um 00:22 schrieb Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

We recently added and an AIX partition to our 740.

We were advised that you can't use IBM I formatted drives (520 byte sector) and we had to buy IX formatted drives (512 byte sector(.

Would this requirement also apply to Linux?

Depends on the scenario used. When you rely on physical disks, the answer is "yes". When you rely on disk emulation files (NWSSTG), the answer is "no".

:wq! PoC

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