Actually the support has been excellent! Gerard
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to set up a common USER home directory across multiple zLinux Guests Most definately. And the support available is pretty good. They have to answer to me if it isn't...8-) On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:05 PM, "Shane Ginnane" <[email protected]> wrote: >> We want to create a central location for all zLinux server's user >> home directory located on a common server (using NFS?) with some >> method of failover if that server is down. Is there a file system >> that crosses different servers that can be mounted by one system as >> the user home file system, and then can fail over to another system >> if that (NFS holding the Home Directories) server goes down? > > Wasn't this what {Open}AFS was designed for ?. Even allowed locally > cached copies to be used and/or editted (not saved) when the server > went away. > And yes failover is available for configuration. > Never tried it, but it looks like s390x is an option. > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
