On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:06:14AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Marian. > > I would suggest that you look into using one of the Linux file systems > that are meant to be shared by various Linux images, be they virtual > under z/VM or real on Intel hardware. > > 1) OpenAFS (the folks over at Sine Nomine http://www.sinenomine.net/ > know a lot about this one....)
That's a network filesystem, only one system image very actually writes to the disk. > 2) IBM's GPFS (although I don't know if this is available for zLinux yet.) It wouldn't be portable to zLinux even if people wanted it without a major rewrite because it's encodes various AIXism that make it hard to use. Besides that it's a really messy piece of junk that no one should use. > 3) RedHat's Global File System (original done by Sistina, I believe...) > http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/ that's a useable shared filesystem, yes. and 4) most importantly ocfs2 which is included in the current mainline kernel aswell as SLES9+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
