I have looked into this, but from a z/VM standpoint. I had to table it until I got some other things cleaned up. If interest is high, I will move it closer to the edge of the table and it might fall off sooner. ;-)
What I had planned was this... Port portions of the e2fsprogs distro, mainly the ext2fs library Provide the necessary lowlevel I/O routines Create simple command line utes like "ls", "cp", "chmod", and such to access the filesystem Ultimately, create a Rexx function package to directly access the file system Any suggestions, comments, rants? Leland > -----Original Message----- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Possible enhancement idea for dasdfmt > > > This tidbit is one of the things I list as "missing" in my Linux/390 > presentations. I think read-only access to an ext2/ext3/reiserfs file > system from z/OS and z/VM would be a Good Thing[tm]. > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kern, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Possible enhancement idea for dasdfmt > > > Actually, it would be nice to have an OS/390 program that > could READ a Linux > filesystem. There is a fair amount of data collection I could > do using our > Apache/PHP webservers. Then instead of another FTP type > process to move the > data to OS/390 for inclusion in larger databases, the database update > process could read the data directly from the Linux DASD. > > /Thomas Kern > /301-903-2211 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 09:14 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Possible enhancement idea for dasdfmt > > > > (snipped...) > > > > So, I guess it is no longer needed by me. Unless somebody is > > crazy enough to > > want to create an OS/390 program which could directly read / > > write a Linux > > filesystem. Not that I'm advocating doing this. But it is an > > interesting > > thought to me. >
