[MPICH] Limitations of MPI I/O (romio) on ntfs

[James S Perrin]

Hi,
	I'm using mpich2 (previously mpich 1.2.5) on windows with ntfs, just one of a 
number of platforms my applications needs to support.

	There is very little documentation on what are the limitations using ntfs and 
what I found are through trial and error. I just want to confirm what I've found 
or learn if there are solutions.

1. Only one process can access a file for reading. This is an annoying problem 
as we/users have dual cpu machines. I can understand writing being restricted to 
a single process by not reading. Is there some hint that I should be using?

2. This seems like a bug, if my file is set to read_only and even though I'm 
opening it using MPI_MODE_RDONLY the file fails to open.

3. If I share a folder across a cluster (and use mpichs shared folder to drive 
mapping) should I be able to read a file on multiple nodes (and multiple 
processes per node if 1. has a solution)?

Regards
James
	
PS Since the list server told me that the romio-users is non-existent I guess 
this is where I should post on the subject.

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