GPFS on Mac OS X

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GPFS on Mac OS X

Hello,

I'm working on a multi OS platform project with Linux and Mac OS X computers.
I've created a GPFS cluster for all of my Linux (4 servers are attached at a SAN), and I would like to install GPFS on my 5 Mac OS X clients. Is it possible ? Mac OS X 10.5 is UNIX 03 compliant, but I don't find anything on the web solving my issue.

If not, I'll have to use Samba to access the GPFS filesystems, but it's not the preferred solution for our client.

Thanks.

Philippe.

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Nov 13, 2008 7:10 AM

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nerowolfe

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Nov 13, 2008 8:20 AM in response to ppages

Welcome to Apple Discussions:
This should answer your question:

"(Leopard's) Full POSIX compliance and UNIX03 certification means you can move all your critical UNIX applications to Mac OS X quickly and easily..."

http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/osfoundations.html

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ppages Author

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Nov 18, 2008 6:41 AM in response to nerowolfe

Hello,

Thanks for your answer.
I knew for this full posix and Unix 03 certification compliance. That's why I thought GPFS can be compiled and installed on Mac OS X.
But this IBM product needs some prerequisites like rpm (installed on my mac), mount, umount, etc... (installed on /sbin but it looks for them at /bin, like on Linux systems) and some other as ld-linux...
So "critical Unix applications to OS X quicky and easily" is just for marketing...

I'm using GPFS for Linux sources, I'll try to get GPFS for AIX or other Unix systems, maybe it will be easier...

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