September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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Chapter 16. VIF 269
The -04 level of that publication was available at the time of writing this redbook,
and some of the information is repeated here for convenience; this chapter
should augment that book.
Terminology
First we’ll discuss the terminology used by VIF, because some of the terms align
more closely with Linux than with traditional S/390 parlance.
A VIF partition is a piece of a disk. This is based on the PC term used to describe
how hard drives are portioned off. In S/390, terms it can be described as DASD
or a VM minidisk. Typically, in S/390 terms, a partition refers to a logical partition,
or a “slice of a mainframe”.
A VIF image is a virtual Linux server. The term image is used for many different
meanings, but in general it ...
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