On Gwe, 2005-10-28 at 08:08 -0500, Nix, Robert P. wrote: > Is there a properly intelligent filesystem and driver that can handle a > read-write filesystem across multiple zLinux images? > > We're trying to install the set of Tivoli products, using zLinux as the > server for many of the pieces, and the folks doing the install have come to a > piece that says it will run on zLinux, but requires R/W access to a specific > directory from all servers participating in the cluster. The Tivoli people > want to do the HA install, and so would want / need this directory on a > filesystem that can be R/W to multiple zLinux guests. > > I am unaware of any viable solution. NFS doesn't cut it, because the NFS > server could go down. Are there any alternatives?
GFS can do it today on Linux. I don't know the state of GFS on 390. Clusterfs merging into the base kernel is currently a hot topic but there are some tricky virtual memory related problems to resolve before that happens. Probably then Oracle OCFS2 and GFS will get merged. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
