Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA

2021-12-12 Thread Andrew Beattie
Jonathan,   What is the main outcome or business requirement of the teaching cluster ( i notice your specific in the use of defining it as a teaching cluster) It is entirely possible that the use case for this cluster does not warrant the use of high speed low latency networking, and it simply

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA

2021-12-12 Thread Alec
So I never said this node wasn't in a HPC Cluster, it has partners... For our use case however some nodes have very expensive per core software licensing, and we have to weigh the human costs of empowering traditional monolithic code to do the job, or bringing in more users to re-write and

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question on changing mode on many files

2021-12-12 Thread Alec
How am I just learning about this right now, thank you! Makes so much more sense now the odd behaviors I've seen over the years on GPFS vs POSIX chmod/ACL. Will definitely go review those settings on my filesets now, wonder if the default has evolved from 3.x -> 4.x -> 5.x. IBM needs to find a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question on changing mode on many files

2021-12-12 Thread Simon Thompson
> I'm not sure if this happens on Spectrum Scale but on most FS's if you do a > chmod 770 file you'll lose any ACLs assigned to the > file, so safest to bump the permissions with a subtractive or additive o-w or > g+w type operation. This depends entirely on the fileset setting, see:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA

2021-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 12/12/2021 02:19, Alec wrote: I feel the need to respond here... I see many responses on this User Group forum that are dismissive of the fringe / extreme use cases and of the "what do you need that for '' mindset. The thing is that Spectrum Scale is for the extreme, just take the word