We build with CSI hardened nodes and /tmp is marked to block execution. It causes occasional frustration but it would be important to be able to redirect to a file system that allowed execution.
William On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 13:28 Paul Edmon, <ped...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > I was about to ask this as well as we use /scratch as our tmp space not > /tmp. I haven't kicked the tires on this to know how it works but after > I take a look at it I will probably file a feature request to make the > name of the tmp dir flexible. > > -Paul Edmon- > > On 3/19/2021 7:19 AM, Tina Friedrich wrote: > > That's excellent; I've been using the 'auto_tmpdir' plugin for this; > > having that functionality within SLURM will be good. > > > > Have a question though - we have a need to also create a per-job > > /scratch/ (on a shared fast file system) in much the same way. > > > > I don't see a way that the currentl tmpfs plugin can be used to do > > that, as it would seem that it's hard-coded to mount things into /tmp/ > > (i.e. where to mount a file system can not be changed). Or am I > > misreading this? > > > > Tina > > > > On 16/03/2021 22:26, Tim Wickberg wrote: > >> One errant backspace snuck into that announcement: the > >> job_container.conf man page (with an 'r') serves as the initial > >> documentation for this new job_container/tmpfs plugin. The link to > >> the HTML version of the man page has been corrected in the text below: > >> > >> On 3/16/21 4:16 PM, Tim Wickberg wrote: > >>> We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 20.11.5. > >>> > >>> This includes a number of moderate severity bug fixes, alongside a > >>> new job_container/tmpfs plugin developed by NERSC that can be used > >>> to create per-job filesystem namespaces. > >>> > >>> Initial documentation for this plugin is available at: > >>> https://slurm.schedmd.com/job_container.conf.html > >>> Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php . > >>> > >>> - Tim > >>> > >> > > > >
