z/VM 3.1.0 and later support NFS through the Byte File system. Client is free, server is an extra-cost feature.
"Never trust any computer you can lift." Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Rob van der Heij > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2002 1:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: sharing the disk space > > > Is there any other way without using the NFS, like something that I can > do > > with the VM or the OS to make these partitions visible to the other > images. > > As long as you don't write to the disk, yes (and you need to make sure the > systems are similar enough in that they have the same uid/gid number, > etc). > Because each Linux image will cache portions of the disk in memory it will > not see all changes to the disk consistently, so writing while others read > is > out of the question. Multiple writers is even worse. > And then there's the issue of what you can share from a function point. It > would work for the html pages served by Apache on all systems, but I'm > not sure if you could share programs between distributions, for example. > > Rob > >
