Hi Rom, Yea, I think that's exactly what I'd need. I had started looking at the source for vboxwrapper, but if that's something you could add officially to BOINC then that'd be amazing, thanks!
My end goal btw is to have hosts running Docker, and this would allow persisting images between tasks. We'll see if there's any other road blocks... Marius On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > I can add another shared directory that points to a scratch area in the > project's directory. > > Would that work for you? > > ----- Rom > > -----Original Message----- > From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Marius Millea > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] is there a way to persist files on the host > > (sorry if this screws up the threading, I can't figure out how to reply to > a specific message given I receive only the digest?) > > > I see, that makes a lot of sense, thanks. I suppose a followup problem is > that this is a VBox app, which AFAIK only gets access to the mounted > shared/ folder. Is there any way around this? > > Marius > > > The easiest way is to not tell BOINC about the file - > > just create it in the project directory, and look for it there in > > subsequent jobs. > > > > The app can get the project dir from the APP_INIT_DATA: > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/StatusApi > > > > -- David > > > > > > On 25-Jun-2015 2:10 AM, Marius Millea wrote: > > > Suppose the result of a computation yields a large file which I > > > would > > like > > > > > > 1) to remain on host > > > 2) to be used in subsequent computations > > > 3) to not be uploaded > > > > > > I think I know how to do 1), if I have the file in the output > > > template I can add the <copy_file> flag. Is there actually any way > > > to do 2 or 3 though? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Marius > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
