Mark Wrote: "I think read-only access to an ext2/ext3/reiserfs file system from z/OS and z/VM would be a Good Thing[tm]."
Here's a radical thought. Why not let USS under MVS use volumes formatted for/by Linux with ext2/ext3/reiserfs write and read! Then the two OS could interchange data more freely and at a higher data rate than is possible with TCP/IP applications. As to the data interlock issue, it could initially be solved with two volumes volume 1 rw to USS, ro to Linux volume 2 rw to Linux, ro to USS And invent a "refresh command" that rereads the meta data on the ro system? The refresh command would also allow ro filesystems to be shared between Linux systems and and the systems would not have to be rebooted to get updates. Just issue to "refresh" on the ro systems. ===== Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
