Be careful that running data intensive jobs over NFS
is super slow (at least an order of magnitude compared
to writing things on a local disk).
Not only the computation is slow, but you may be slowing down
all other users of the cluster too...
F.
On 07/30/2013 11:28 PM, Adam Ralph wrote:
Dear Sergei,
Second point is probably easier to do. An alternative to NFS is
sshfs. The
advantage is that it uses SSH which is installed by default and
configured the
same way. If you generate key pairs you can use ssh or sshfs without a
password.
Check this page below;
http://www.howtoforge.com/mounting-remote-directories-with-sshfs-on-ubuntu-11.10
Typically LDAP is being used for centralised authentication but NIS
is probably
just as good. Page below is about the client setup.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAPClientAuthentication
Both of the above are more likely to survive upgrades.
Adam
