Sharchar: Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos
ANy thoughts about this? Either way, thanks for all of your help guys! TIA On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:50, Mag Gam wrote: >> David: >> >> Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate >> to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around >> this? > > You can specify the 'user' option in fstab so that usres can mount the > relevant filesystem. > > If you precreate the files with the filesystems in them, it may cover it. >> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > WOW! >> > >> > Very nice ideas. >> > >> > I like the dd idea. What command would I use for that? Also, the files >> > are coming from NFS; how can I help this? Any ideas for this? >> > >> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations >> >>> create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small >> >>> (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take >> >> >> >> My approach: >> >> >> >> make a sufficiently-sized file using dd if=/dev/zero of=/bigfile bs=1m >> >> count=1000 >> >> >> >> size so that you have enough room, and room for growth, of course >> >> >> >> Make a filesystem inside of that file (reiserfs might be a good choice >> >> since it is well-designed to handle lots of smallish files, although >> >> "small" by that definition may be much smaller than 200k) >> >> >> >> Mount that file in loopback mode prior to running your simulations, >> >> and (after moving the files over to the new filesystem) direct all >> >> filesystem traffic to use that 'filesystem' which may entail only >> >> something simple as cd'ing into the 'filesystem' and starting work. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Shachar Or | שחר אור > http://ox.freeallweb.org/ > >
