[Pvfs2-developers] online docs

2008-03-21 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
Hey, I've noticed that the links in the TOC at the top of the various online docs is broken. They all refer to index.php that doesn't seem to be there. Is there supposed to be a sym link or something? Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University

[Pvfs2-developers] question about defines common to server and client

2008-02-20 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
PVFS2_CLIENT_JOB_BMI_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT 30 /* Default number of times to retry restartable client operations. */ #define PVFS2_CLIENT_RETRY_LIMIT_DEFAULT (5) /* Default number of milliseconds to delay before retries */ #define PVFS2_CLIENT_RETRY_DELAY_MS_DEFAULT 2000 -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE

[Pvfs2-developers] protocol encoding

2008-01-30 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
that by essentially starting a client state machine on the server. Any input on that activity is encouraged. Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] patches: admin utilities

2007-11-29 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] patches: admin utilities

2007-11-29 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
:01 AM, Walter B. Ligon III wrote: I like both Pete's ideas. The original implementation where state actions were declared manually allowed shared or extern actions - and that probably fits the standard C model better - it's hard to auto-generate that stuff in the general case. But, putting all

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] FUSE for PVFS

2007-06-13 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
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[Pvfs2-developers] pvfs.org and mailing lists

2007-06-06 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
. They ended up shutting us down, and we remained down all day Tuesday. Some time before 5am this morning they got it back up. Everything should be working OK now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Passing the entire param struct

2007-03-07 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
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Re: [Pvfs2-developers] server crash on startup with millions of files

2007-02-23 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
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[Pvfs2-developers] pvfs2-client-core

2006-11-09 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
Hey, the client core prints a date at the point in the log file where it starts. On my system the month is off by one. Is this unusual? Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers

[Fwd: Re: [Pvfs2-developers] pvfs2-client-core]

2006-11-09 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
follow up to this email (which I seem to have sent to myself): Walter B. Ligon III wrote: I'm kind of stuck on the branch. ALL of the lib tests seem to work, but when I try to mount via the kmod, mount returns mount: Not a directory As far as I can tell from the logs everything

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Pvfs2-developers] pvfs2-client-core]

2006-11-09 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
of this looks OK to me - the only things I noticed at all were that fs_add_sm: parent_cleanup returned 1 and the downcall write returned 1. I can't determine if either of those indicate an error. Walt Sam Lang wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Walter B. Ligon III wrote: follow up to this email

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-25 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
= repost_unexp_vfs_request( vfs_request, op already in progress); break; default: PVFS_perror_gossip(Operation failed, ret); ret = repost_unexp_vfs_request( vfs_request, failure); break; } return ret; } Walter B. Ligon III

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-25 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
); ret = repost_unexp_vfs_request( vfs_request, failure); break; } return ret; } -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] threaded client-core and the device thread

2006-10-24 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] threaded client-core and the device thread

2006-10-24 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
. Walt Sam Lang wrote: I'm working with your branch Walt. Most of the code that does allocation of the client state machines is the same. -sam On Oct 24, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Walter B. Ligon III wrote: Should be careful here, since all of the code dealing with PINT_client_sm's have been

[Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-24 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
:28.493479] [-] reposted unexp req [0x9b5a030] due to failure -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-24 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
error code was returned. Walt Walter B. Ligon III wrote: Hello all - I'm debugging away in the pvfs-client. I start everything up, do a mount, which seems to work, then do an ls, and it hangs. In the log I can see a series of GETATTR requests going through the pvfs-client, until I get

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Distribution by hostname

2006-10-10 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Distribution by hostname

2006-10-09 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
I think has done this too. What did they look like (since they would be other examples of string passing of values)? What did we like/dislike about them? Regards, Rob Walter B. Ligon III wrote: I tend to agree with Pete and Sam ... Given the existing distro interface this is the right place

[Pvfs2-developers] mkdir test

2006-10-05 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
this fails if the test objects are not in the path (as on my machine). I guess you have always had that in the path so it hasn't affected you. Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] mkdir test

2006-10-05 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
right. Anyway, we might just have to brute force it to find any more. I'll get it all checked in for the next nightly. Walt Walter B. Ligon III wrote: Rob, there is a bug in test/client/vfs/test-mkdir at line 230. After making and removing a couple directories the test decides to remake

[Pvfs2-developers] question about server SM stuff

2006-09-26 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
status, but I want to be sure. Comments appreciated. Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman

[Pvfs2-developers] question

2006-09-21 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
There is a function in src/server/pvfs2-server.c: server_purge_unexpected_recv_machines(void) is that a new function? and under what circumstances is it used? Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] question

2006-09-21 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
to field unexpected messages in preparation for the server to exit. So no more new messages will be received after the server gets a signal to terminate gracefully. Thanks, Murali -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] question

2006-09-21 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
, Murali -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University

[Pvfs2-developers] Re: parallel state machine code

2006-09-08 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
PINT_smcb *smcb); int PINT_smcb_cancelled(struct PINT_smcb *smcb); -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf

[Pvfs2-developers] valgrind?

2006-08-29 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
has anyone run the server with valgrind? I have a nasty memory bug and I'm trying to use it to find the problem, but the server won't run with it - tells me some of the db functions don't work Any experience? Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] valgrind?

2006-08-29 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
Ignore this - I upgraded valgrind and it went away. Now if I can just figure out what all this valgrind output means :-( Walt Walter B. Ligon III wrote: has anyone run the server with valgrind? I have a nasty memory bug and I'm trying to use it to find the problem, but the server won't run

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] valgrind?

2006-08-29 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
. what os and distro are you trying? rob Walter B. Ligon III wrote: has anyone run the server with valgrind? I have a nasty memory bug and I'm trying to use it to find the problem, but the server won't run with it - tells me some of the db functions don't work Any experience? Walt -- Dr

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Sys create setting the datafile nodes depending on interface call.

2006-08-16 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
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Re: [Pvfs2-developers] terminating state machines

2006-07-27 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
hammering away to make sure I am not missing a larger issue... -Phil -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] terminating state machines

2006-07-27 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
off to figure out a way to use setjmp/longjmp in my implementation! Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] state machine ending

2006-07-26 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
would also be a handy place to trigger callback functions if we ever found a need to go to using threads and a callback based API there. -Phil -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers

[Pvfs2-developers] terminating state machines

2006-07-26 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
only works with the job system intact. I'd prefer not to do this, but it does seem the cleanest, most logical means. Comments? Walt -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] terminating state machines

2006-07-26 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
Phil Carns wrote: Walter B. Ligon III wrote: OK, guys, I have another issue I want input on. When child SMs terminate they have to notify their parent. The parent has to wait for all the children to terminate. So I've been thinking to use the job subsystem for this: the parent would

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] terminating state machines

2006-07-26 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
think I'll use the minmal method. The only real diff is Sam's preference not to use a counter. We can go around on that, but I'm leaning towards a counter, at least for the initial implementation. -Phil -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] state machine compiler tweaks

2006-05-30 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
___ Pvfs2-developers mailing list Pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers -- Dr. Walter B. Ligon III Associate Professor ECE Department Clemson University ___ Pvfs2-developers mailing