Thanks... been thinking about local homes vs. pvfs since I don't really need anything but .bashrc. However, managing local home directores on 62+ nodes gets boring after a while... I rather prefer the idea of running pvm as you indicate, but I haven't had any luck finding out how to do this- do you have a pointer to something that describes that? I can't even pull together a good google term to find out how that's typically done. I will very likely end up using pvfs for database directories if I can make it robust enough, though. Sounds like pvfs2 has some great improvements in that area. > Lastly, you can port to mpich on a bproc system like Scyld, and get > rid of > pvmd's altogether. From my conversations with the developers, sounds like a port to MPI is underway. Thanks ... On Feb 24, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Michael Will wrote: > Just statically mount /home rather than doing automounting of > individual homes, > and you are fine. Also you could run the pvmd's as a user that does > not require > or have an nfs-mounted home but uses local scratch instead. > > Lastly, you can port to mpich on a bproc system like Scyld, and get > rid of > pvmd's altogether. > > Michael