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

[Jonathan S Monette]

What about the work directory?
On Apr 18, 2011 9:28 PM, "Mihael Hategan" <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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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>> 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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