Scott, NFS is of course one option for sharing file systems, but its security model and performance may not meet your requirements. MVSDASD has no security model - and doesn't even support the necessary serialization to be considered safe IMO.
It would be nice if z/OS zFS filesystems could be shared with Linux on z, but don't hold your breath. Even so, that wouldn't address sharing of MVS datasets. While not a file sharing technology per se, our free Co:Z toolkit allows processes on z/OS to exchange data with processes on Linux on z It uses SSH to setup processes and connections between z/OS and Linux, but you can also configure it to use clear-channel socket connections for data transfer (taking advantage of hipersockets). For more information, see: http://dovetail.com/coz Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks David and Dave! I've passed this on .. appreciate the response .. > > Scott Rohling > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > Scott, there's an open source project called MVSDASD that provides a read > > only Linux > > device driver to flat files stored on MVS DASD; e.g., sequential z/OS > > datasets. It even > > has a page comparing it to NFS. It's web site is located here: > > http://www.mvsdasd.org/ > > > > Good luck. > > > > > > > > Scott Rohling wrote: > > > >> I know this topic has been done before - but you never know if something > >> new > >> has come to pass... > >> > >> The subject says it all -- We know NFS works -- but we're looking for > >> solutions outside of NFS. A customer recently asked me about 'zFS' > >> (which > >> appears to come from an older reference at the IBM Haifa website).. > >> > >> Outside of network mounts -- is anyone aware of something that allows > >> either > >> z/OS to read Linux filesystems directly, or vice-a-versa? (ECKD or > >> FCP/SAN) > >> > >> Thanks for any suggestions! > >> > >> Scott Rohling > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > >> > > > > -- > > DJ > > > > V/Soft > > z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, > > consulting, and software development > > www.vsoft-software.com > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
