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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>People,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In <A
href="http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/research/beowulf/tutorial/beosoft/">http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/research/beowulf/tutorial/beosoft/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Starling describe how to build a beowulf system
using some PC´s. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I´m based in the tutorial to construct a beowulf
system with 8 Pcs. Starling describe in the tutorial the the configuration of
the nodes to export the filesytem. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In a point he say:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"We decided to export scratch partition from all
nodes and use autofs to mount these from any node upon rquest. Our exports file
looks like:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/scratch
n???.cacr.caltech.edu(rw,no_root_squash)"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I´m new with administration of linux, but my
question is: What is scratch partition?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Must i create the directory /scratch ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Geraldo Pereira de Souza (<A
href="mailto:geraldo@cic.unb.br">geraldo@cic.unb.br</A>)<BR>Laboratório de
Sistemas Integrados e Concorrentes - LAICO<BR>Universidade de Brasília -
UNB</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>