ECKD shop here... Nothing wrong with that - Where are your 2 lpars? Why can't they share? If you do not have physical access to both, you will need to replicate it over a network. What that network is depends... You can send it over an IP with DRBD. You can replicate it with HW with PPRC. I doubt you'd want to stop PPRC for a server blip though.. That's a whole nother set of fun. But way easier if you can just cable both those CECs to the same local eckd dasd. You can set up your NFS server to use the SLES High Availability Extensions and move that function from one server to another. But, the one waiting in the wings has to have file system available to him.
I'm not sure how writes in progess would deal with this though. I guess using NFS it would just fail on the client side and he'd have to retry his work. You might want to google HA NFS and see what things others are doing to support that. Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lionel Dyck Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:01 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] NFS and AutoFS - a how to question Another point - the dasd is all mainframe (eckd) dasd :-) Thanks Lionel B. Dyck <>< z/Linux Specialist IBM Corporation Global Technology Services - Kaiser Account Work: 925-926-5332 E-Mail: ld...@us.ibm.com AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck | GTalk: lbdyck From: Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 08/04/2010 01:55 PM Subject: Re: NFS and AutoFS - a how to question Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu> >>> On 8/4/2010 at 04:45 PM, Lionel Dyck <ld...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > One other point - the two NFS Servers are on different CEC's/LPARs for > availability and the storage may not be share-able . iSCSI will make it shareable. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
