To use the disk space on all the nodes intelegently you want to look into one of the parallel file systems.
You can set up nfs on any of the nodes (you may need to install some prerequisites), but it if you want, you could just make the node with the good disk drives on it the head node and rebuild the cluster. This would make setting up the cluster to use the large disk drive trivial. It just depends on if you have some other reason for using the head node you started with... On 1 Dec 2006 17:29:44 -0500, Jinsong Ouyang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am using OSCAR 5.0 on Fedora 5.0 x86_64. My head node uses SCSI drives, > which are expensive to add more space. In order to add more disk space, I > added a client node which uses SATA. I just added 7 400GB drives to that > node. If I am right, I need to let all the other nodes in the cluster be > able to access these SATA drives. Do I need to start NSF daemon on this > client node and then mount all the partitions on all the other nodes? That > will probably affect performance of the cluster if I choose to do that. > Actually, I tried to start NFS service on the client node and got some error > message like "unable to find recovery directory … starting 90 seconds grace > period…" > > > > I searched mailing-lists archives and could not find an answer. The OS on > each client takes only a few GB. Suppose you have a big drive, then how can > people use the rest of the space from any node in the cluster? It seems to > me that you need to start NFS daemon on every node in order to do that. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jinsong Ouyang > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
