On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:00:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, the shark is being used to share dasd with open systems over > fiber. Would it be possible to have the linux image connect (over > FICON?) to access that same data? For example, to mount the same > file-system an NT server is hitting? I'm sorry if my wording is all off > and I am talking about jamming square blocks into round holes.
There is a zfcp driver in the 2.4.19 kernel on developerworks. So, in theory this should be fine. I don't know how the data-sharing issues work, although I think you wouldn't risk filesystem corruption, only cache coherency problems, if you mounted, say, an NTFS volume read-only over FCP. Adam
