[PVFS-users] Is my pvfs successfully setup?

[kenix y]

Sorry, didn't notice that the mail replies to you instead of the mialing 
list.


>From: Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net>
>To: pvfs-users at beowulf-underground.org
>Subject: Re: [PVFS-users] Is my pvfs successfully setup?
>Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:32:01 -0500
>
>
>Please reply to the list so that others can offer help as well.
>
>Thus spake kenix y:
> > My head node is called frontend-0.
> > If I mount my head node successfully with:
> > mount.pvfs frontend-0:/pvfs-meta /pvfs1
> > What is the command I should use to mount the other node, named 
>compute-0-0?
>
>I think there may be some confusion in your terminology / understanding
>of how the PVFS filesystem works.  A PVFS filesystem consists of a
>metadata (mgr) server, and several I/O (iod) servers.  The daemons which
>provide these functions can run on different machines, or the same
>machines.  The preferred method is to have the daemons run on separate
>machines.  Thus, in a simple example, you might have
>
>metaserver (mgr)
>ioserver1 (iod)
>ioserver2 (iod)
>
>And then you have some number of clients, which want to mount the PVFS
>filesystem.  We will call these machines 'client1' and 'client2'.  The
>client machines all use the same mount command:
>
>mount.pvfs metaserver:/pvfs-meta /local-mount-point
>
>If your clients happen to be the same as your metadata server or I/O
>servers, that doesn't matter - the mount command is the same.
>
>--
>Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net>
>
>We always get bored with those whom we bore. - Francois de La
>Rochefoucauld
>
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