Be careful that running data intensive jobs over NFS
is super slow (at least an order of magnitude compared
to writing things on a local disk).
Not only the computation is slow, but you may be slowing down
all other users of the cluster too...
F.
On 07/30/2013 11:28 PM, Adam Ralph wrote:
> Dear Sergei,
>
> Second point is probably easier to do. An alternative to NFS is
> sshfs. The
> advantage is that it uses SSH which is installed by default and
> configured the
> same way. If you generate key pairs you can use ssh or sshfs without a
> password.
> Check this page below;
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/mounting-remote-directories-with-sshfs-on-ubuntu-11.10
>
>
> Typically LDAP is being used for centralised authentication but NIS
> is probably
> just as good. Page below is about the client setup.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAPClientAuthentication
>
>
> Both of the above are more likely to survive upgrades.
>
> Adam
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