https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287047#M5533 Thank you LinusH, appreciate it. We have other SAS team sitting remotely, they are using WINSCP with UNIX but not sure which file system they are using. Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:18:51 GMT woo 2016-07-25T23:18:51Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287026#M5531 <P>Hello friends, i am not sure if this question is appropriate or not but wanetd to know,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>in order to make sas files available across grid environment (shared file system), what kind of file system is appropriate for UNIX or linux server?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I know one option is IBM based GPFS.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:44:40 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287026#M5531 woo 2016-07-25T20:44:40Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287034#M5532 Two years old, but should still be somewhat relevant :<BR /><A href="http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/papers/SurveyofSharedFilepaper_20131010.pdf" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/papers/SurveyofSharedFilepaper_20131010.pdf</A> Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:14:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287034#M5532 LinusH 2016-07-25T21:14:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287047#M5533 Thank you LinusH, appreciate it. We have other SAS team sitting remotely, they are using WINSCP with UNIX but not sure which file system they are using. Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:18:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287047#M5533 woo 2016-07-25T23:18:51Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287101#M5536 Not sure if thats relevant. Chose the appropriate file system for your grid deployment, and then make sure that they can access data/files there according to your design. Tue, 26 Jul 2016 06:14:30 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287101#M5536 LinusH 2016-07-26T06:14:30Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287548#M5550 Thank you all for your time and information...its useful... Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:06:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Options-available-to-share-files-across-SAS-GRID-architecture/m-p/287548#M5550 woo 2016-07-27T18:06:49Z