From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 14:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECF937B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1619F43EDA for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from ccs.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3/(ccn-5)) with SMTP id gBAMUugp028453 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:30:56 -0700 Received: (qmail 5230 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 15:30:55 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO carotid.ccs.lanl.gov) (128.165.148.162) by 128.165.148.1 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 15:30:55 -0700 Received: (qmail 1462 invoked by uid 3499); 10 Dec 2002 15:30:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 15:30:55 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:30:55 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" X-X-Sender: rminnich@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov To: Joshua Goodall Cc: Michael Grant , Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster In-Reply-To: <20021210222210.GG98967@roughtrade.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Joshua Goodall wrote: > * NFS probably is robust enough for some environments. A suggestion > I was given to remember with cross-mounts is to use soft/interruptible, and > always login as root directly (rather than trying to sudo from a user > account that may have just become unavailable in /home). soft/interruptible: bad. Leads to large blocks of zeros in files. Spongy: better. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message