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Tami wrote:
Don't know if it helps this conversation at all but Steve Will just
blogged about SLS:
http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/you_and_i/2009/08/
the-new-value-of-single-level-store.html
Hmmm, I wonder if he was reading this thread! As "IBM i Chief Architect",
of course Steve Will is going to defend SLS!
Let's look at his two arguments: First, he looks at the ease of managing
disks on the iSeries. I think he's making somewhat of a strawman argument
here. Of course, disk management on IBM's mainframe systems is a real pain
in comparison. But first, the same isn't necessarily true on other
operating systems. And second, if you've spent 7 or 8 figures in your
machine room, you can afford the necessary operators. (Contrary to all the
obits over the years, there's still life in the z/Architecture!)
Second, he discusses how the iSeries automatically balances where things
are stored on disk based on the relative speeds of the storage devices,
looking at solid-state drives in particular. Sure, that's way cool! On the
other hand, on a conventional O/S environment, I think I'd simply put the
swap partition on the SSD device and enjoy the same performance benefit.
Cheers! Hans
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