Caleb -- First, as Roger Evans suggests, try NFS. Make things easy on yourselves! NFS works. (I will address the downside in another note.)
Second, you should seriously pursue shared read-only volumes. Devices which can be shared across LPARs are the natural choice for static shared content. Where VM is involved, you can take this concept to an extreme because VM regulates access better than bare hardware does. Use EXT2 (so there will be no attempted journal replay), mount it read-only at all times when shared. (Mount RW when servicing and be sure no one is using the volume(s) when being serviced.) IT WORKS. Each LPAR will think it has a private copy of that disk. Others have suggested some of the RW shared disk options, other than just GFS. They all present requirements that would make this note waaayyy to long. -- R; <>< Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 22:45, caleb ong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > running multiple lpars with rhel 5.3 on z10. > > We are looking of ways to share a filesystem among different rhel lpars. We > have for different lpars to access some common files. > Found GFS but it seems that this is not supported in the mainframe env. Don't > know if the latest version support this or not. > Can anyone suggest any ways to share filesystem between lpars . thanks. > > Caleb > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
