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  Hi Gregory,

  I think we are going around in circles. Could you answer the following
question?

    Are you trying to create "prod" areas in the 3 gpfs filesystems? (These
    are _not_ read-only areas as BaBar has partitioned the namespace.)

                                   Pete

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:35:25AM +0200, Gregory Schott wrote:
> 
> 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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> >>>Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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> >
> >
> >
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