[PVFS-users] Preparing an IO server under Linux

[Robert Latham]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:26:21AM -0500, Michael Homa wrote:
> The above are all subdirectories. Does anyone recall what command or step
> creates these directories?

starting the iod, actually :>

> I've spent several days going through my notes and the pvfs documentation
> to no avail. I don't recall what I did to create the directories and I
> need to recreate them on a different IO server.

Let's say i've got a large partition "/scratch", and i want pvfs data
to go into /scratch/pvfs-data.  Make the directory, create an iod.conf
file pointing to /scratch/pvfs-data, and then when you start the iod
it will create those 101 subdirectories if they do not yet exist.

==rob

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