[Pvfs2-users] pvfs2-genconfig problem

Sam Lang slang at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Apr 27 18:35:53 EDT 2006


Hi Jeff,

Your bug was reported recently.  I'll try to have that fixed with the  
next release.

-sam

On Apr 27, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Jeffrey McDonald wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a cluster of computers that I'm attempting to install pvfs.   
> This is a rocks 4.1 cluster, if that is familiar to the reader.    
> The pvfs2-genconfig program that I'm using to setup the pvfs config  
> files mixes metadata and i/o servers in a strange way when I  
> configure it on the head node.
> The head node is called sax and the compute nodes are called  
> sax000, sax001, sax002 and so on.   I want the metadata server to  
> be sax and the i/o servers to be sax00N.   When the pvfs-fs.conf  
> and pvfs-server.conf files are created, sax000 and sax appear to be  
> swapped in function in the pvfs-fs.conf config file,  e.g.
>
> ....
> Alias sax tcp://sax000:3334
> Alias sax000 tcp://sax:3334
> ....
>
> I managed to repair these files, I had to repair all of the pvfs- 
> server.conf-$(hostname) files because the program shifted by one  
> the numbering of each host, e.g. pvfs-server.conf-sax002 has the  
> configuration for sax003.
> I'm not sure if this bug has been reported, but if someone already  
> has a fix, please share it.
> I'm using pvfs2-1.4.0.
>
> thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
>
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