> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 1:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Quick AIX question rooted in a z/OS concept > > > John, > > Thanks for the info. I know I need something like GPFS to do > this. I'm > NOT going to allow the programmer to just hope for the best and share > the disk. What I was looking for was something akin to GPFS > (hopefully > without the admin overhead of HACMP) that would allow me to do this > safely. GPFS is definitely an IBM product. Can you tell me what AFS > is? NFS won't work for me because that is giving me a single point of > failure in that if the NFS server goes down, I've lost access to the > data from both sides of the AIX LPARs. > > Rex
AFS == Andrew File System? Or something similar. But I think it is like NFS and requires the two systems to be in communication with one of them being the actual server. Sorry, but I've never used it and only remember a bit from discussions on the Linux forums. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
