Hi Chris -

I loosely recall there being some sort of FS ID flag that needs to be set
uniquely for each filesystem in the config files, we used to have 3 or 4
server processes running at the same time on different filesystems.


Kyle Schochenmaier


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've never tried to do this before, but to start, I would try defining
> separate storage spaces for each filesystem.   Curious, when you run the
> server with the -f option, exactly which directories are created?  Can you
> send me the output from an "ls"?
>
> Another tip is to make each server both meta and IO.  You want to spread
> out the metadata just like you do for the streamed data.  Having one
> server handle the metadata will become a bottleneck in a high performance
> environment.
>
> Becky
> --
> Becky Ligon
> PVFS Developer
> Clemson University
> 864-650-4065
>
> > I'd like to set up two shares to be managed by the same PVFS server.
> > I've read in the docs that I can have multiple filesystem entries in
> > pvfs2-fs.conf, but I haven't been able to successfully do this. Does
> > someone have an example config file with multiple filesystem entries
> > that they can share?
> >
> > More details:
> >
> > I've successfully set up a single share based on the quick start guide.
> > It's a four-node network: one metadata server, four i/o nodes. Nodes are
> > identical, each 6x dual-core xeon, LAN connection, running ubuntu lucid.
> > To generate the two-filesystem config file, I ran pvfs2-genconfig twice,
> > then pasted the filesystem section from the second file into the first,
> > making sure the Name and ID fields were unique. This was based on 3.9 in
> > the PVFS2 FAQ, "Can I mount more than one PVFS file system on the same
> > client?"
> >
> > Using the two-filesystem config file, pvfs2-server -f works, but then
> > pvfs2-server (with or without -d) ends immediately with a segfault.
> > Nothing is written to the console or logfiles. I tried a different
> > version of pvfs2-fs.conf with non-overlapping MetaHandleRange and
> > DataHandleRange values for the two filesystems, but as I'm not exactly
> > clear on what these do I'm not sure if that's the right approach. I've
> > attached the conf file for a single-server test of two filesystems, with
> > separate Range value.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -crispy
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