[Swift-devel] [Fwd: [pads-users] Mounting homes read-only on computes]

[Mihael Hategan]

It should be a configurable parameter. I was thinking more like gpfs,
but it should be the user's choice.

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 18:53 -0700, Sarah Kenny wrote:
> /var/tmp ?
> 
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
>         I guess we should allow worker logs to go in some other place
>         than
>         ~.globus/
>         
>         Mihael
>         
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>         To: pads-users at ci.uchicago.edu
>         Subject: [pads-users] Mounting homes read-only on computes
>         Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:00:40 -0500
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>         One of the things discussed as part of the post-mortem of
>         today's home file server outage is mounting home directories
>         read-only on the compute nodes. We do this on Beagle and
>         haven't had any complaints for the most part. So I wanted to
>         solicit you to see how disruptive that might be to your
>         current PADS work. Homes would still be mounted read-write on
>         the login machines, but they wouldn't be writable on the
>         computes. The alternative is to push your writes to either
>         GPFS or the local scratch filesystems. If we don't hear any
>         major complaints about this, we're targeting next month's
>         maintenance to make this live. What are your thoughts on this?
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