PVFS2 supports symbolic links.
I would try that.
Good Luck,
ALex
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נושא: Re: [Oscar-users] To Use Disk Space on a Client node
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
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> 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
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