On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, McKown, John wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:06 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: "batch" compiles > > > > > <snip> > > > > > You might also equip everyone with their own quad Xeon running Linux, > > Hercules and Linux/390. > > <DROOLING BIG TIME> ME FIRST! ME FIRST! This is actually what I intend to > propose, in a sense, for doing maintenance and testing. Why use very > expensive zMIPS (you heard it here first!) when I can get a relatively > inexpensive "super workstation" to do patches and kernel compiles and tests? > Do it all on the Linux/Intel/Hercules platform, then just NFS mount to the > mainframe and copy to the "quality assurance" Linux image for "real > testing".
To share a filesystem, I use nfs. I update some files, I am using rsync. And the moment I'm developing (yet another) Debian installer, and I nfs-mount it from one of my RHL boxes. I'm doing the editing in a Debian chroot environment, and use rsync to copy the installer and associated bits and pieces to /tftpboot. Bear in mind that a lot of L/390 development can actually be done on ia32 machines. I guess the major concern is software licence costs, but then that could be a problem with Herc too. btw My Perl scripts work perfectly well on a network, and I have given them a run in a compile farm (three machines). They don't distinguish between users (there's only one of me). -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
