GPFS

2006-04-13 Thread Jack Slavick
Many thanx to all for the info. The request for GPFS was specific (politics, as usual) so I don't have a whole lot of wiggle room with alternatives. Again, Thanx to all. Best Regards, Jack Jack H. Slavick Acxiom Corporation (312) 985 -

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
18 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS > > > On 4/12/06, Hall, Ken (GTI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IIRC, UnionFS was part of the core of the Levanta "virtual > server" product, when we looked at it in 2

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 4/12/06, Hall, Ken (GTI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, UnionFS was part of the core of the Levanta "virtual server" product, > when we looked at it in 2003-2004. The idea was that you installed each > product group in a separate filesystem, and then layered them onto each other > to pr

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
it working on s390 back then, as a bundled product at least. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Rob > van der Heij > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:10 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Fw: [

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 4/12/06, John Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious over how available the UnionFS (made famous or infamous by > Knoppix) would be? I started working with unionfs some time ago and it is pretty cool. There was an error in one of the macros in the s390 kernel source, but I believe t

Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread John Campbell
e.net> cc: Sent by: Linux onSubject: Re: [LINUX-390] GPFS 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> 04/09/06 01:21 PM

Re: GPFS

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jim, you mention this: "Sorry, but GPFS is available only for > Linux on x86, Linux on POWER and AIX on POWER. There are no > plans to make this available on zSeries." Okay, where do I find > GPFS for Linux on x86 on the IBM websites? GPFS is a chargeable product. Infor

Re: GPFS

2006-04-11 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Jim, you mention this: "Sorry, but GPFS is available only for Linux on x86, Linux on POWER and AIX on POWER. There are no plans to make this available on zSeries." Okay, where do I find GPFS for Linux on x86 on the IBM websites? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Rem

Re: GPFS

2006-04-11 Thread Carsten Otte
Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, you do have other options as Mark and David mentioned. > In addition to AFS and NFS there is also OCFS2 (Oracle Cluster > File System) http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ which supports > Linux for zSeries (64-bit). It is unclear to me from the Re

Re: GPFS

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sorry for a dumb question, but does anyone know if (or if ever) > zLinux will support the GPFS filesystem? Thanx in advance for > your assistance. Jack: Sorry, but GPFS is available only for Linux on x86, Linux on POWER and AIX on POWER. There are no plans to make this available o

Re: GPFS

2006-04-09 Thread David Boyes
> Red Hat's GFS may be of some interest, if you're > looking for a shared file system. If it's all within on z/VM system, > NFS or AFS are known to work. Actually, NFS and AFS will work cross-system, and even with discrete systems participating. GFS is known to work in 31-bit, but don't know if

Re: GPFS

2006-04-08 Thread Post, Mark K
The last word we had on this subject was from Jim Elliott of IBM, back in July of 2004. At that time, Linux/390 was not one of the platforms that supported GPFS. Red Hat's GFS may be of some interest, if you're looking for a shared file system. If it's all within on z/VM system,

GPFS

2006-04-05 Thread Jack Slavick
Sorry for a dumb question, but does anyone know if (or if ever) zLinux will support the GPFS filesystem? Thanx in advance for your assistance. Best Regards, Jack H. Slavick Acxiom Corporation (312) 985 - 2827 -- For LINUX-390

Re: GPFS

2004-07-24 Thread Jim Elliott
>> However, it should be noted at OCFS is limited to being used >> for Oracle database files. OCFS is NOT a general purpose file >> system. > Not true for OCFS2 anymore. Christoph: Well OCFS2 is very much beta code yet and it may be possible to use this as a general purpose file system in the fu

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Little, Chris
Ah! Thanks for the addendum. I thought it was probably that way, but I've never used it. > -Original Message- > From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: GPFS > > > > If I rem

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:38:53AM -0400, Jim Elliott wrote: > > If I remember correctly, Oracle plans on releasing OCFS for > > Linux on zSeries > > However, it should be noted at OCFS is limited to being used for > Oracle database files. OCFS is NOT a general purpose file system. Not true for OC

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Jim Elliott
> If I remember correctly, Oracle plans on releasing OCFS for > Linux on zSeries However, it should be noted at OCFS is limited to being used for Oracle database files. OCFS is NOT a general purpose file system. Jim -- For LINUX

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Little, Chris
If I remember correctly, Oracle plans on releasing OCFS for Linux on zSeries > -Original Message- > From: Kohrs, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 8:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GPFS > > > Has anyone implemented IBM's

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread David Boyes
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:52:22AM -0500, Kohrs, Steven wrote: > Has anyone implemented IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) on > Linux guests running under VM? We're looking for a way to keep Web > content synced between multiple Web servers. We've tried sharing a

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Jim Elliott
> Has anyone implemented IBM's General Parallel File System > (GPFS) on Linux guests running under VM? We're looking for a > way to keep Web content synced between multiple Web servers. > We've tried sharing a common volume, but due to Mini-Disk > Caching (just a g

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Rich Smrcina
How about rsync? No sharing required. On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 08:52, Kohrs, Steven wrote: > Has anyone implemented IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) on > Linux guests running under VM? We're looking for a way to keep Web > content synced between multiple Web servers.

Re: GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Duff Sr., David
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GPFS Has anyone implemented IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) on Linux guests running under VM? We're looking for a way to keep Web content synced between multiple Web servers. We've tried shari

GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Has anyone implemented IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) on Linux guests running under VM? We're looking for a way to keep Web content synced between multiple Web servers. We've tried sharing a common volume, but due to Mini-Disk Caching (just a guess), changes are not see