On 2016-05-17 12:19, Loris Bennett wrote: > > Benjamin Redling > <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 05/17/2016 10:02, Loris Bennett wrote: >>> >>> Benjamin Redling >>> <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> On 2016-05-13 05:58, Husen R wrote: [...] >>> Which version does this? [...] >> An older one. [...] >> I assumed slurm commands/parameters don't change (all over the board). [...] > I haven't really been bitten by such changes. My main gripe with the > Slurm tools is the inconsistency of the interfaces, e.g. output columns: > > squeue -o " %.18i" > sacct -o jobid%18 > > or selection according to nodes > > squeue -w node001 > sacct -N node001 > > This is obviously not a real problem, but it is a daily annoyance. So > in that sense, I do think that changing the parameter semantics would be > a good idea, but only once and only if the options become harmonised > across all the tools!
I agree. That would be a good reason -- if prominently advertised in the changelog and highlighted in the documentation. I wrote it before: I miss an easy way to lookup the documentation for a specific slurm version on the official site. Like ganeti does it. Regards, Benjamin -- FSU Jena | JULIELab.de/Staff/Benjamin+Redling.html vox: +49 3641 9 44323 | fax: +49 3641 9 44321
