[Pvfs2-users] basic questions about pvfs2

[Robert Latham]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:53:01PM -0500, xiangyong ouyang wrote:
> 2. How to change the strip_size? I know we can change the
> PVFS_DIST_SIMPLE_STRIPE_DEFAULT_STRIP_SIZE value in the source
> header file: include/pvfs2-dist-simple-stripe.h.  But that requires
> a re-compilation whenever I change the value. Is there a global
> environment variable that I can set to change the strip size? 

If you are using MPI-IO to create the file, you can pass in the
"striping_factor" hint via MPI_Info

==rob

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Rob Latham
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