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

[Allan Espinosa]

The workdirectory of a site and client host maybe on different
machines.  My guess is that it should be something in the
etc/swift.properties file

2011/4/18 Jonathan S Monette <jonmon at utexas.edu>:
> 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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>>> From: pads-users at ci.uchicago.edu
>>> Reply-to: pads-users at ci.uchicago.edu
>>> 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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