Re: Linux Shared DASD

2010-10-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
A quick amendment: On 10/21/10 1:53 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: > On 10/21/10 1:40 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: >> >> Don't define the MDISKs to both be writable filesystems on each guest, >> because >> that risks corrupting the filesystems. Use NFS instead. >> >> (snip good followup explanation

Re: Linux Shared DASD

2010-10-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
On 10/21/10 1:40 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: > > Don't define the MDISKs to both be writable filesystems on each guest, because > that risks corrupting the filesystems. Use NFS instead. > > (snip good followup explanation) You could in theory and with some amount of trouble, set up a cluster fi

Re: Linux Shared DASD

2010-10-21 Thread John Hanley
Linux on 390 Port > > 10/21/2010 02:40 PM > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port > > To > > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > > cc > > Subject > > Re: Linux Shared DASD > > On Thursday, October 21, 2010 02:07:39 pm you wrote: > > Hello, > &g

Re: Linux Shared DASD

2010-10-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday, October 21, 2010 02:07:39 pm you wrote: > Hello, > I have a requirement to share (read/write) a set of files (XML) between two > zLinux guests under the same zVM LPAR. > The zLinux guests will run WebSphere and update the same set of files. > Can I define an mdisk as "MWV" and allow th

Linux Shared DASD

2010-10-21 Thread John Hanley
Hello, I have a requirement to share (read/write) a set of files (XML) between two zLinux guests under the same zVM LPAR. The zLinux guests will run WebSphere and update the same set of files. Can I define an mdisk as "MWV" and allow the zLinux guests to share? Or would it be prudent to setup somet