Share Filesystems between SCO Openserver and AIX with SF V6
Hello,
I would like to share FS between SCO Openserver v6 and AIX (+ Basic Storage Foundation V6.0.3). I created some filesytems on SCO Openserver and maps this LUN to a AIX servers (using SAN capabilities). The servers didn't share the same LUN in the sametime.
# lspv
....
hdisk18 none None
# vxdisk scandisks
# vxdisk -e list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS OS_NATIVE_NAME ATTR
....
san_vc1_9 auto:none - - online invalid hdisk18 -
The disk is online but invalid. I suppose that VxFS on SCO Openserver is not compatible with SF 6. But is it true ? and is there a way to solve that ?
Thanks.
- There are at least 3 issues to overcome:
- Logical Volume Management / Paritions
SCO uses divvy and AIX will use Veritas Volume Manager or AIX LVM and these are not compatible.
- Filesystem:
SCO uses AFS and AIX will use vxfs or jfs. You could possibly overcome this if you could find a common filesystem between the two.
- Endianess:
SCO probably uses little Endian for its filesystem and AIX probably uses big Endian and this being the case, you would have to convert from one to the other, even if you could overcome the above 2 issues.
So to umount a filesystem in SCO and mount it on AIX is very difficult and probably impossible, so you should use NFS
Mike
- Logical Volume Management / Paritions