On Wed, 29 May 2002, Justin Cormack,348H,48251, wrote:
> Some people do want local disks.
>
> Reasons are:
> 1. for swap if you have very large processes (or other temp storage)
> 2. for large semi-fixed datasets (sending a few 100GB to hundreds of nodes
> might be painful)
absolutely right. The key is, too many people "need" local disk until they
look at their apps carefully, then find out ... they don't need it after
all. We've found here that we're not going to need local disk, and it is a
significant problem for reliability. So out they go!
> nfs or whatever. Or dont use bproc or similar.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
well there's the problem :-)
ron
