> OpenAFS isn't supported > on SLES 10 SP1. Not true. OpenAFS is completely and totally supported on SLES 10 with or without SP1. All versions of SLES, in fact. I ought to know, I pay most of the people who work on it...8-)
> I think we need EVMS because we want to create a big logical volume with > smaller ocfs2 volumes, doing striping and multipath (with PAVs). I don't > know exacty if ocfs2 supports aggregation of "physical" volumes on logical > volumes. You may want EVMS because the ocfs2 command syntax is so bloody ugly. EVMS puts a nicer face on it. > Also is interesting IBM General Parallel File System, but mysteriously it > isn't supported on zLinux. GPFS has some scalability problems, although if you're looking at cluster file systems like GPFS, you ought to look at Lustre too. > Another project is a file server in this zLinux environment, serving to a >lot windows clients (maybe thosands). I think the one and only solution is > Samba. Another reason to look at AFS. The Windows client is quite good, and the servers work very well on System Z. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
