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On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:53:49 -0500 james wrote: |
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> OK, I'll give that a whirl. But if I want to go casually looking at old |
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> codes, removed from the tree, that I have never used before, but are |
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> vaguely referred to in some old post, how do I do that with git? |
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> For example, I have conversed on numerous occasions with the old physics |
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> professor that wrote sys-cluster/wulfware. We have prospectives that are |
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> similar. Although he does not actively, at this time, support wulfware, |
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> he has architected a more conservative approach to HPC than many of the |
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> current, more-prominent projects. He has quite a proposal for me to |
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> move the code forward, should I want to take it over. Yet, a |
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> tree-cleaner probably has marked it for removal. |
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> Old code is often wonderful, ymmv. It's old school, 'C' centric and |
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> there are many other old useful codes. Not that this reference is any |
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> big deal, but there is a lot more than me out there with similar |
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> beliefs. It's exciting to see something old (PVM) return in part as a |
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> new project (OrangeFS). Oh, OrangeFS is all the new-rage with some HPC |
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> folks and it making a return via kernel-4.6 (I believe). |
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Yeah, OrangeFS is a fascinating project. We used it on our HPC |
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cluster, but had some stability issues. There is |
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orangefs-2.9_beta20130530-r1 ebuild available in my overlay (as |
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well as for some older versions). It is outdated and will not work |
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on kernels > 3.4, but fuse client can be used. |
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The most pain to support this package was out-of-tree kernel |
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module. Its inclusion into 4.6 kernel is a really great achievment |
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of OrangeFS team. So I have plans to update it to 2.9.5 and include |
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in the tree. If gods will bless me with more spare time :) |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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