Re: create separate persistent disk space for each node

From: Jian Feng <no email>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:31:49 -0800

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On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Jian Feng <freedafeng_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> We want to create a cluster where each node has a couple of tele-bytes
> disk space for its own. The space in a node is used to store large data
> sets that will be processed by this particular node.
>
> I understand that we can create EBS volumes and then starcluster can mount
> them as network shared disks. So from there, I can create a symbolic link
> for each node to use the network disks, sth like
>
> ln -s /data/volumn0001 /localdisk
>
> This should work, but I am wondering if there is a cleaner solution. Also,
> I need the space is accessible right after the cluster is up or rebooted,
> because some init.d jobs will try to read/write the data in the disks.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Received on Tue Dec 23 2014 - 15:31:57 EST