I am using slurm 2.3.5 with scontrol man page for July 2011. Should I be using 
a newer version ? which ?

In the July2011 scontrol man page, I cannot find: flags=static_alloc
For:
> scontrol -V
slurm 2.3.5
All I have for:
> man scontrol 
<...snip...>
       Flags=<flags>
              Flags associated with the reservation.  In order to remove a flag 
 with  the  update
              option,  precede  the  name with a minus sign. For example: 
Flags=-DAILY (NOTE: this
              option is not supported for all flags).  Currently supported 
flags include:

              LICENSE_ONLY...
              MAINT       Maintenance mode, receives special accounting 
treatment.  This partition...
              OVERLAP     This  reservation can be allocated resources that are 
already in another...
              IGNORE_JOBS Ignore currently running jobs when creating the 
reservation.   This  can...
              DAILY       Repeat the reservation at the same time every day...
              WEEKLY      Repeat the reservation at the same time every week...
              SPEC_NODES  Reservation is for specific nodes (output only)...
scontrol 2.3                       July 2011                       SCONTROL(1)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Moe Jette [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:14 PM
To: slurm-dev
Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: If node state is DOWN it is replaced in an exisiting 
reservation - can the replacement be disabled ?


See "flags=static_alloc" description in the scontrol man page section 
describing reservation creation. That will prevent substitution of replacement 
nodes.

Quoting Yuval Leader <[email protected]>:

> I see the following behavior:
>
> If a node is already in an existing reservation, it is automatically 
> replaced by another available node (if exists) if the reserved node 
> state is changed to DOWN or DRAINED.
>
> The logfile will show something like this:
> [2012-07-15T11:43:40] update_node: node 12200FixedEdge state set to 
> DRAINED [2012-07-15T11:44:01] modified reservation miked_120 due to 
> unusable nodes, new nodes: 6600-24XGJ9265A
>
> My question is if this behavior can be modified – can this automatic 
> replacement be disabled ?
>
>
> --
> Yuval Leader
>

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