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Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?

2007-10-03 08:41:48
Subject: Re: RE AS400 & Amanda?
From: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu AT fedasil DOT be>
To: Francis Galiegue <fg AT one2team DOT com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:43:50 +0200

owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org a écrit sur 03/10/2007 14:41:23 :

> Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit :
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Francis Galiegue wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Cyrille Bollu a ?crit?:
> > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > We don't have any Linux partition on our AS400.
> > > >
> > >
> > > What exactly do you call a Linux partition? An ext3 filesystem or a
> Linux "VM"
> > > host?
> > >
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's the latter, because AFAIK, AIX
> > > doesn't have a native ext2/ext3 fs driver...
> >
> > On AS/400, `partition' doesn't mean `disk partition', but `logical
> > partition' (lpar).
> >
>
> I'm afraid I'm not really fluent with AS/400 (and that's probably very
> offtopic anyway), but how do you define an AS/400 "logical partition",
> or "lpar" as you name it?
>

AFAIK, a "logical partition" can be thought as a "Xen virtual guest".
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