[Pvfs2-users] mounting pvfs2

[Robert Latham]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:26:40PM +0100, Matthias Pfeifer wrote:
> 
> the quickstart guide says, that a mount command for pvfs2 looks like this:
> 
> mount -t pvfs2 tcp://testhost:3334/pvfs2-fs /mnt/pvfs2
> 
> i wonder what the pvfs2-fs part means? does this have be overtaken
> literally?  or does this depend on our local setup?

That 'pvfs2-fs' is a PVFS "file system identifier" field.  That field
could be anything, but in practice (and for any file system configured
with pvfs2-genconfig) that identifier is always 'pvfs2-fs'.   The
identifier has meaning only to the pvfs2-server process.  

It could be something else if you wanted a set of PVFS servers to host
two namespaces.  Most people don't do this, however.

==rob

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Rob Latham
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