[PVFS2-users] Any documents for pvfs2-xxx tools?

[Xiuduan Fang]

Got it. Thanks. So if I call write or fwrite to a file that resides on 
PVFS2, then the data are also distributed on all I/O servers by default, 
right?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Latham" <robl at mcs.anl.gov>
To: "Xiuduan Fang" <xf4c at cs.virginia.edu>
Cc: <pvfs2-users at beowulf-underground.org>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PVFS2-users] Any documents for pvfs2-xxx tools?


> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:42:44PM -0500, Xiuduan Fang wrote:
>> Thank you for your help. I found we can assign the starting server's id 
>> via
>> u2p in PVFS1. I am curious why pvfs2-cp does not provide this function.
>
> (please don't forget to keep pvfs2-users in the CC list).
>
> pvfs2-cp doesn't provide this function because we (that is, I) were
> not aiming for feature parity with u2p.  I don't think there are any
> technical reasons why pvfs2-cp can't assign the starting server's id.
>
> It's now on my list of things to add, but if you want it done faster,
> patches welcome :>
>
> ==rob
>
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