[Beowulf] Putting /home on Lusture of GPFS

Christopher Samuel samuel at unimelb.edu.au
Tue Dec 23 15:43:47 PST 2014


On 24/12/14 05:35, Michael Di Domenico wrote:

> I've always shied away from gpfs/lustre on /home and favoured netapp's
> for one simple reason.  snapshots.  i can't tell you home many times
> people have "accidentally" deleted a file.

We use GPFS snapshots for our project areas already, for just that
reason. :-)

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