Hi Alex, Thanks a lot for your message! I heard PVFS does not support symbolic link, which I think we must have. Do you know if the latest version of PVFS supports symbolic link?
Jinsong > It is possible to use PVFS. Install the PVFS server on the OSCAR server > and you can use all the extra disk > space on each node. It can be quite significant. Of course, if one of the > nodes go down, then the PVFS > server will not function. We've been running such an OSCAR system for more > than 3 years. > > Regards, > ALex > > ________________________________ > > îàú: [EMAIL PROTECTED] áùí Jinsong Ouyang > ðùìç: ù 02/12/2006 00:29 > àì: [email protected] > ðåùà: [Oscar-users] To Use Disk Space on a Client node > > > > 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 > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
