On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:18:02AM -0800, Ralph Castain wrote: > All we do is import the ROMIO distribution, so I'm afraid you'd have to make > that request of them.
You rang? ROMIO parses filenames, as the quoted standard suggests it ought to. If it finds a : it parses the preceding string as a "file system type". That's usually short like "ufs" or "nfs" or "bglockless" but I guess we wanted to be able to support one day "someresearchfswithacrazylongnamefs" . Fear not: easy workaround is to just use that file system type prefix. ROMIO will stop parsing after finding the first colon. You can put colons galore in the file name after that first colon. so "ufs:p:a:t:h:a:l:o:g:i:c:a:l:f:i:l:e:n:a:m:e.c will work. We ran into this in pnetcdf land where as you can imagine colon could show up when you store timestamps in the file name: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf/browser/trunk/README#L19 (That note went into the README in June 2005. I guess I should have done a better job advertising that ROMIO er, "quirk"? in the intervening seven (!) years. ) ==rob > On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Eric Chamberland > <eric.chamberl...@giref.ulaval.ca> wrote: > > > On 01/21/2013 01:00 PM, Reuti wrote: > >> although you can create such files in Linux, it's not portable. > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename (Reserved characters and words) > >> > >> Best is to use only characters from POSIX portable character set for > >> filenames. Especially as this syntax with a colon is used to denote the > >> file system, i.e. with the name "nfs:foobar" you will tell MPI that the > >> file "foobar" is located on NFS. > >> > >> (page 392 in the MPI 2.2 standard) > >> > > > > Ok, thank you for the information! > > > > May I suggest then to have a better error message? :-) > > > > Eric > > > > > >> -- Reuti > >> _______________________________________________ > >> users mailing list > >> us...@open-mpi.org > >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Lab, IL USA
