You can use the 'checkpoint to local disk' example to checkpoint and restart
without access to a globally shared storage devices. There is an example on the
website that does not use a globally mounted file system:
http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/ft/ompi-cr/examples.php#uc-ckpt-local
What versi
I asked this question because checkpointing with to NFS is successful, but
checkpointing without a mount filesystem or a shared storage throws this
warning&error:
WARNING: Could not preload specified file: File already exists.
Fileset: /home/andreea/checkpoints/global/ompi_global_snapshot_7426.ckp