On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Andy. > > There are several ways you can share data between your two LPARs running VM. > You can: > > 1) connect the two LPARs with a hipersocket connection (if your hardware > permits it). Then data can be moved from a Linux image in one LPAR to a > Linux image in the other LPAR using, e.g., FTP. > 2) physical DASD can be shared among the two LPARs using a VM facility > called Cross System Extension (CSE). It's a standard part of VM, already > included in what you have installed. It allows two VM images (one in each > LPAR ) to share DASD. One Linux image can access DASD in read/write mode, > while another Linux image in the other LPAR can access the same DASD in read > only mode.
Does that actually work if the disk is online to both systems at the same time? I have visions of Linux not appreciating that the data on its ro volume is actually dynamic. _I_ should have mentioned nfs and such. I also found the site for enbd - it was a trivial Google search. See http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/ -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
