Re: catfight.

2005-10-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
Christoph's point is well taken: The best place for the code was to be submitted for inclusion in the mainstream and subject to peer review. My point is that I hadn't avoided that process but had been trying to work with IBM (via SHARE and the Technical Steering Committee) to setup a co-operative p

Re: catfight.

2005-10-08 Thread Michael MacIsaac
> I might have been a bit harsh in the last mails, good start ... > but oops! "but" negates the previous statement. Perhaps "Sorry Neale, you're code is not utter crap" I've never looked at the code but have been using Neale's cpint for years and it has always worked perfectly for me. Thanks for

Re: catfight.

2005-10-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:24:44PM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > There is something that needs to be discussed here, though. One of the > observations early on in the project of bringing Linux to the mainframe was > a perception that the IBM Germany folks tend to prefer to implement a > solution with

Re: Incremental Backups of Linux env. on Z Series

2005-10-08 Thread Ranga Nathan
I would strongly recommend running production Linux under VM as you have more options to repair in case of problems. I am also thinking of clustering. In this case z/VM would be a better environment. I am fairly new to VM compared to many veterans here. I find more options under VM than on bare met