[Info-vax] Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions

[BillPedersen]

On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 7:19:06 PM UTC-4, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 1:48 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> > On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 9:32:39 AM UTC-4, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> >> On 10/24/2016 7:42 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> >>> On Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 2:49:53 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> >>>> On 10/23/16 11:50 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> It looks like some of my comments may be based on my wrong belief that
> >>>>> the updated tools could be used without installing the base kit.
> >>>>
> >>>> They can. I believe John Reagan said he did the LLVM port without
> >>>> installing the base GNV kit. But some of what you're looking for may be
> >>>> missing.
> >>>
> >>> That is incorrect. I "installed" the base kit and a bunch of the updates.
> >>>
> >>> What I do differently is I want a "local-to-me" kit.  I don't have
> >>> privs on our cluster and I don't want to do a system-wide install.
> >>> All that psx$root stuff isn't important to me.  However, PCSI kits
> >>> are inherently system-wide.
> >>
> >> Have you tried using the "/remote" qualifier for PCSI with
> >> PCSI$SYSDEVICE and PCSI$SPECIFIC pointed to a personally mounted logical
> >> disk?
> 
> > So PCSI thinks GNV is installed but only accessible from my disk?
> > That  isn't friendly to others on the system who might want to use GNV.
> 
> Who cares what PCSI thinks.  It would populate a logical disk image that 
> you can use where needed.
> 
> > The real story was that we had the base GNV kit installed on some of
> > our machines (but not all). I needed some newer pieces like sed, gawk,
> > make, and grep if I remember. I just rolled my own.
> 
> The logical disk only needs to be privately mounted for the install.
> 
> I think you can mark the container file read-only for others to mount as 
> needed on their cluster nodes.
> 
> I do not think you can mount a logical disk clusterwide, but as long as 
> it is a read-only volume, I would expect that each cluster could mount it.

Yes, you can use LD devices cluster-wide and they can also be shadow set members.

Bill.