We have several customers using the AFS approach on 390, and there are certainly dozens using it on other platforms (I think CMU has several thousand workstations set up that way, and a lot of financial houses use AFS extensively). I've less experience with GFS, but it looks promising. I think there is a redbook on using GPFS (note, not same thing as GFS) with the SP/2 that would bear looking at -- I think a lot of the ideas would be similar.
I haven't tried building CFS (cluster file system) or the other OpenSSI tools on Linux/390 yet. May be worth playing with that a bit to see how it flies. The summer issue of SysAdmin Mag had a special issue on Linux clustering that had some useful articles on CFS and OpenSSI -- would be useful reading. www.sysadminmag.com -- don't know if they're up on that site, but there's other good stuff there too. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Jim > Sibley > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: "Re: Possible enhancement idea for dasdfmt" > > > I defintely need to carve out some time to study the > AFS and GFS approaches. Is anyone using them extensively? > > ===== > 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 >
