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 > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 > >>>Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 > >Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------