neuro@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Sean Marrett) (04/04/91)
About ten days ago, I posted a message asking if anyone had experience trying to tune a network of SGI systems that had small (200Mbyte) local disks. Although I got one responsesuggesting splitting along / and /usr lines, no one reported experience in trying to split things along the client/shared tree line. This turns out to be quite tricky, since many of the elements in the client tree turn out to be links, and there doesn't seem to be any way to upgrade software cleanly, since install insists on having NFS shut down when it runs. So, we have decided to just install local /tmp and swap files. For a good discussion of this and other tuning questions, there is an SGI document which you can request from your local rep: "NFS and Diskless Workstations: a guide to tuning for performance" by Paul Reilly, Technical Marketing, SSD, SGI. If anyone has any experience relevant to this question, we would still appreciate any info. Please e-mail to me directly, and I will summarize. Any progress on the ubiquitous FAQ file ? Sean Marrett Brain Imaging Montreal Neurological Institute sean@petvax.medcor.mcgill.ca neuro@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.ca