Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-04 Thread John Hearns
Chris Samuel wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Mark Hahn wrote: why V4? - security. within a cluster, I don't see the point to, say, kerberos. Agreed, not to mention all the pain of trying to get Kerberos tickets passed through the queueing system and the fact that if you're running a 3 month job

Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Samuel
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Mark Hahn wrote: > why V4? > - security.  within a cluster, I don't see the point to, say, kerberos. Agreed, not to mention all the pain of trying to get Kerberos tickets passed through the queueing system and the fact that if you're running a 3 month job it's going to be qu

Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Hahn
In my??humble opinion, I think you can start with NFS (but using at least NFSv4) How stable/usable is the Linux NFSv4 implementation these days ? why V4? - security. within a cluster, I don't see the point to, say, kerberos. - compound rpcs. probably provides somewhat better efficiency. - op

Re: [Beowulf] network filesystem

2007-03-04 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:39, Chris Samuel wrote: > How stable/usable is the Linux NFSv4 implementation these days ? It sucks if you are using CentOS 4.x. With Debian Etch, it seems work pretty well. wt -- Warren Turkal ___ Beowulf mailing list, Be