Hi,Rob I'm a PVFS2 user , I have a question, when i add one more i/o data server, I must change all the servers config file,and then restart pvfs2-server on all servers? is this true ? The original data on the I/O data servers can be lost ?
2009-10-22 xiechangcai 发件人： Rob Ross 发送时间： 2009-10-22 02:08:05 收件人： Chris Worley 抄送： pvfs2-users 主题： Re: [Pvfs2-users] File affinity and CPU resource scheduling concernswhen using compute node as a PVFS server Hi Chris, Yes, you can certainly run PVFS servers on compute nodes. That's what we used to do all the time back in "the day", but it's still possible. The file system does not migrate files. In part this is because it would dramatically complicate metadata management, in part because we are frequently running in environments where there's no locality to exploit. You can choose to distribute over fewer (or just one) node, and there is functionality to discover where a file is stored, so you can map your computation onto the storage. Obviously yes, doing work on some other node will slow down computation on that node, how much depends on many things. Rob On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Chris Worley wrote: > I haven't looked at PVFS for nearly a decade, so my understanding > could be way out of date. Sorry if this is a stupid question; I'm > hoping PVFS might fill some requirements I'm looking at. > > Is it typical to use compute nodes as PVFS file servers? Is it even > possible (i.e. it isn't w/ Lustre)? > > If so, while striping across I/O nodes looks to be the default, is > there any provision for file affinity... i.e. files migrating to the > nodes using them? > > If striping is the only choice, and compute nodes serve the I/O too, > then a job running on one set of nodes could be using files striped > across another set of nodes in use by another job, causing both jobs > to loose performance, correct? > > Are there any links to PVFS performance over IB? > > Thanks, > > Chris _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
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