SFS pretty much does exactly that -- for CMS users. You can provide access to files stored in SFS for Linux via the CMS NFS server. Not exactly high-performance (dispatching 2 or 3 virtual machines to handle each transaction is kinda heavyweight), but it works.
Working on something better. 8-) > I would like z/VM to provide a capability to add up DASD devices into a kind > of large pool and place image files like qcow2 (or something similar) in it. > Wether this image is presented as ECKD or something different to the virtual > machine doesn't really matter to me. I don't know wether this wish is > realistic, but i like this feature on my Linux/x86 environment - although i > am a > System z guy for 20 years by now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
