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Hello Peter,

I have 3 GPFS disks which can be seen from 2 GPFS dataservers.

-- Gregory

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Peter Elmer wrote:

>
>  Hi Gregory,
>
>  On which machine do you have these three filesystems:
>
>>>> disk1/some_path/prod
>>>> disk1/some_path/store
>>>> disk2/some_path/prod
>>>> disk2/some_path/store
>>>> disk3/some_path/prod
>>>> disk3/some_path/store
>
> i.e. are you talking about a NAS box (with 3 filesystems) here or the
> 3 gpfs filesystems?
>
>                                   Pete
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:09:09PM +0200, Gregory Schott wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> No, these are two different problems. I have one problem writing to one of
>> the NAS box. The other servers are setup read only, in particular the GPFS
>> ones. The second independent problem is setting up the reading of the 3
>> GPFS disks using 1/2 GPFS dataservers.
>>
>> -- Gregory
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Peter Elmer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gregory,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:38:36AM +0200, Gregory Schott wrote:
>>>>>> 3) Exporting multiple directories on GPFS
>>>>>> =========================================
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have two servers (maybe only one in the future) and 3 directories to
>>>>>> export. I would be very happy if someone had an example on how to use
>>>>>> mps
>>>>>> to export these.
>>>>
>>>>> This should work in the release 20050328-0656. Simply either list the
>>>>> directories on the xrootd command line or list them via multiple export
>>>>> directives in the config file. You've already done that for "/prod" and
>>>>> "/store". So, what am I missing here?
>>>>
>>>> I cannot use this "20050328-0656" version so far because of the DNS
>>>> problem
>>>
>>> Have you talked to the sysadmins at FZK? When will the strange /etc/hosts
>>> files be fixed?
>>>
>>>> but the problem is that: I want to export
>>>>
>>>> disk1/some_path/prod
>>>> disk1/some_path/store
>>>> disk2/some_path/prod
>>>> disk2/some_path/store
>>>> disk3/some_path/prod
>>>> disk3/some_path/store
>>>>
>>>> So far I can only export one disk using:
>>>>
>>>> oss.localroot /home/xrootd/disk/kanga/EventStore/
>>>> xrootd.export /prod
>>>> xrootd.export /store
>>>
>>> I'm now confused: are you using the gpfs filesystem as a skim output
>>> buffer
>>> or for the read-only serving of data? I thought we had discussed it being
>>> used for the latter (and some NAS box being used as the output buffer).
>>>
>>>                                  Pete
>>>
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>
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