On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:02:15PM +0100, Werner Baur wrote: > Deon George schrieb: > > One of the major problems we see with linux as tsm server platform is > that you forced to use a well-defined but very restricted range of linux > flavors which is supported by IBM. For example, we would like to use > Suse9 which is our standard system for all our linux serves but are > pinned to SLES 8 if we want to get support from IBM any longer.
I tried TSM on some other Linux kernels. It runs fine as long as you dont use and tape drives. To use tape drives you need the tsm.devices rpm for tape drivers. uThe point is that this rpm contains support for only a few linux kernel versions. If we could just convince TSM development to release the tsm.devices as opensource it would be quite simple to rebuild the drivers for other kernel versions (and different linux distributions). -Marcel -- ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 P.O. Box 112 =======--------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2630 AC Nootdorp __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- counter.li.org so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www.ruperthine.com