Linux (any HW) and z/OS can share filesystems via NFS. I have mounted z/OS filesystems on both PC Linux and mainframe Linux. Big nasty thing to deal with: EBCDIC -vs- ASCII. Many shops mount things twice, one mount point with charset trans, another mount point without it. Yuck.
Personally, I avoid translation because it WILL destroy any binary file that might get copied from here to there and back. Not that I don't use it; just that I avoid it unless/until it is absolutely necessary. I have some old code that reads a line of plain text and figures out if it is EBCDIC plain text or ASCII plain text and normalizes it. Thankfully, z/OS uses a NL character that is non-printable in all environments, so you can readily distinguish EBCDIC NL from ASCII NL. With such a function (which is trivial to write) any programs which read plain text can be set free from A/E problems and you can mount FS without translation and without dual mount nonsense. > I was wondering if I can mount a SuSE file system under USS/zOS as a > recovery system. Any such recovery would be very limitted. Also, device files are a big pain. z/OS explicitly does not let you craete block device files. :-( And one would expect the major/minor numbers to differ between any two Unix variants, until the standards police are deployed to this sector. -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
