On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Sam Lang wrote:

> Do you have the PVFS volume mounted as well, or are you only using PVFS with 
> MPI-IO?  Sometimes the MPI-IO library ends up using system calls with the 
> mounted PVFS volume instead of using the PVFS system interfaces directly.  
> You could try specifying pvfs2: as a prefix to the file you're writing.  I.e. 
>  pvfs2:/pvfs-mnt/test-file1.

Hi, Sam. I'm fairly certain we don't have the filesystem mounted (I don't think 
we even have the kernel/fuse module installed), but we'll double check.

On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Rob Latham wrote:

> Is that correct?  If you stripe 1MB objects with a stripe size of 1MB
> you don't get a whole lot of parallelism, right?

Hi, Rob. We've also tested with 64KB stripes with the same results, I believe. 
Besides, even with 1 MB stripe sizes, that should in general be one 
server/client.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

~Milo
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