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

[Allan Espinosa]

Oh right worker logs.  I was thinking of the submit files (pbs or
condor).  sorry

2011/4/19 Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>:
> You'd want that to be configurable for each site (each may have its SFS
> mounted somewhere else). That would suggest it might go in the sites
> file.
>
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 23:55 -0500, Allan Espinosa wrote:
>> 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
>> >>>
>> >>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> >>> 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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