This is a Really Weird Configuration(tm), but I'll just see what you folks think of it.. At work, my boss and I are trying to get Linux going on our Sun boxes. Well, we know that the OS itself works, but the applications are problematic. For those who were watching previously when I asked around for application support on Linux/Sparc, I'll say that we have had luck with one package (out of 5) - SAS. We haven't actually tried it yet, but I talked to a rep there who said it would work on our systems. Since only some software is available for Linux/Sparc, we're stuck with Solaris, at least on one or two systems. My boss has long had the idea that we should have two servers connected to our A1000 array where our users' home directories are stored, so that we can fail over from one server to the other in our NFS configuration. Of course, since we'd like to get at least one of these systems running Linux, things get really interesting. I've successfully attached two systems together, and had them both reading the array at the same time (though, in normal operation, I'm expecting only one system would have the array mounted at a time). I think we can get this to work, but I'm curious about a few things: * How similar/different are Linux and Solaris NFS servers? Will a client be able to failover to a Linux server from a Solaris server without going nuts? * The Linux UFS driver handles the UFS variants in slightly different ways. How well can the Linux driver read/write Sun's implementation? Am I going to end up with a corrupted filesystem if I dare to try it? * On my test setup, the Solaris box sees the A1000 array at SCSI ID 0, but the Linux systems sees it as SCSI ID 7. Anyone have an explanation? -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Black holes really suck... / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010627/014bd5ad/attachment.pgp