[Swift-user] Fwd: get error when try to set swiftworkdirectory to /gpfs

[Michael Wilde]

Yi, Ti checked all the nodes, and the symlinks to /gpfs were all set correctly.

Can you point us to the log file(s) for the runs that failed in this manner?

Thanks,

Mike


----- "Yi Zhu" <yizhu at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I think I've found the reason of error, by using direct address rather
> than linked address, the error disappeared.
> 
> e.g. instead of set the directory address:
> "/gpfs/ci/swift/yizhu/swiftwork", i use
> "/autonfs/gpfs-pads/projects/CI-CCR000013/yizhu/swiftwork", and then
> everything works fine.
> 
> -Yi
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	get error when try to set swiftworkdirectory to /gpfs
> Date: 	Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:21:19 -0500
> From: 	Yi Zhu <yizhu at cs.uchicago.edu>
> To: 	swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem after switch my swift working directory from /home/
> to
> /gpfs
> 
> My jobs was running on PADS, and my input data was stored at /gpfs and
> the swift work directory was set to /home/swiftwork and everything
> works
> fine.  But when I change my swift working directory from
> /home/yizhu/swiftwork ( in sites.xml) to /gpfs/ci/swift/yizhu, i got
> lots of job failure( about half of them failed).
> 
> since /gpfs/ is also a shared file system and should be transparent
> for
> swift, I have no idea why this happened.
> 
> -Yi Zhu 
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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory