[leaving SAMBA on CMS in better hands to respond]
> Is there any way for CMS and/or Linux users to access data on each
> other's filesystems directly (as files, not using the raw I/O PIPE
> stages)?
There's the CMS FS package,
which is both a utility (to read CMS files directly from Linux)
and a filesystem driver (to mount CMS minidisks onto Linux).
I recently made some changes to this thing, 1) to make the
utility into an RPM, and 2) in the source to better support 2.4.
The RPM and older source should be at
ftp://ftp.bmc.com/pub/cmsfs/
Now ... it would be really sweet if CMS had an EXT2 utility or driver
(or both!). The utility would be easiest to implement by way of
contributed code. The driver would require either hooking the CMS
nucleus in kinky and unusual ways OR support from IBM, both difficult
but fun challenges. Some have discussed a utility privately.
I have yet to see, or to produce, any code for it.
