[Pvfs2-users] PVFS2 Installation

[Robert Latham]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:26:38AM -0500, Jeff Pummill wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> Getting really close!
> 
> After stopping the servers and restarting...
> 
> [root at prospero pvfs2]# /opt/pvfs2/bin/pvfs2-ping -m /mnt/pvfs2
...
> The PVFS filesystem at /mnt/pvfs2 appears to be correctly configured.

That's great!

> Even pvfs2-cp works...
> 
> [root at prospero ~]# /opt/pvfs2/bin/pvfs2-cp /root/biobrew-4.1-0.i386.iso 
> /mnt/pvfs2/biobrew-4.1-0.i386.iso
> [root at prospero ~]# cd /mnt/pvfs2/sample
> [root at prospero sample]# ls -l
> total 169424
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 173328384 Apr 18 16:22 biobrew-4.1-0.i386.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    155537 Apr 18 16:16 
> libgfortran-4.0.2-8.fc4.i386.rpm
> drwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4096 Apr 18 15:39 lost+found
> 
> However, I did not see a "copy time" as I expected...

Are you looking for the output produced by the '-t' option to
pvfs2-cp?

> I need to mod the remaining pvfs2tab files to point amongst the various 
> servers, but what else can I run to see that the filesystem is indeed 
> working as expected?

If you've got both 'pvfs2-ping' and 'pvfs2-cp' working, then the
userspce components are all in good shape.

The next step is setting up the kernel interface.  this pvfs2 roll
might have already done a lot for you, but
http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2/pvfs2-quickstart.html#sec:kernel-interface
outlines the process. 
 
> I sure appreciate your patience and diligence in this exercise, Rob. It 
> has been a positive learning experience on this end!

Glad we were able to get you on your way, even if it took a few days.  

==rob

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Rob Latham
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