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1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [67061]
a. Name of Feature: [6.1 FEAT] Enhance installer to support large volume (EAV) DASD
b. Feature Description
This feature requests to enhance the installer to support working with large volume DASD (EAV). The
dasd tools provided in s390-tools already provide this support, but any other tools, like libparted,
using old version of dasd tools, instead of calling the direct the dasd tools included in
s390-tools, have issues with large volume DASD (EAV).
2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC zSeries BOE
Architectures: zSeries - 64 native,
Arch Specificity: purely arch specific code
Affects Kernel Modules: Field does not exist
Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable
Category: other
Request Type: Installer - Enhancement from Distributor
d. Upstream Acceptance: Field does not exist
Sponsor Priority P1
f. Severity: ship issue
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: 3rd party code
g. Component Version Target:---
3. Business Case
The large volume DASDs (EAV) where introduce as a customer requirement to be able to work with DASDs
bigger than 50GB. Without this feature the customers won't be able to install in such DASDs and the
customer will be disappointed from the distribution installer and as a result the distributor could
loose the customer.
4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis jjarvis
5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com
Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com