[BProc] Question about Filesystems

[Rigler, S. <SR...@Ma...>]

Greetings all,

I am a new user to bproc and have begun using it with a small (6-node)
cluster running Fedora and Clustermatic 4.  This is actually our
first investigation into using clusters for HPC, as our environment
has primarily used big, shared-memory machines (mainly SGI) in the
past.

I am curious what other people are doing in the way of filesystems.
Our environment uses NIS and automounts extensively (home directories,
software and some data are automounted).  We'll probably have some
storage "locally" attached to the cluster, but we'll probably never
be able to get away from the need for automounts.

V9fs looks interesting, but it seems to handle ownership in an odd
fashion; when a regular user creates a file, the file looks like it
is owned by root although regular users can modify or delete that
file.

I'm curious what others are doing in these areas.

Thanks,
Steve