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technical:generic:mills-ongoing-file-access [2019-07-12 10:14] – [$WORKGROUP_MILLS] frey | technical:generic:mills-ongoing-file-access [2019-07-16 15:03] (current) – frey |
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====== Access to Mills File Systems ====== | ====== Access to Mills File Systems ====== |
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On July 8, 2019, the Mills cluster took another step toward its eventual shutdown: | On July 8, 2019, the Mills cluster took another step toward its eventual shutdown (complete retirement on January 1, 2020(([[https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/2/334/files/2016/01/MillsEnd-of-LifePlanandPolicies-3-1jp8lqd.pdf|End-of-life policies]] with respect to hardware failure will continue to apply: failure of critical components may lead to loss of some functionality or total shutdown of the cluster. Barring such events, Mills will continue to function in this state until January 1, 2020 when its storage and head node will be decommissioned. |
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* all compute nodes were taken offline | * all compute nodes were taken offline |
When entering a workgroup with the ''workgroup'' command on Farber and Caviness, the ''WORKDIR_MILLS'' environment variable will be set. The variable contains the directory at which the Mills workgroup directory will be present. | When entering a workgroup with the ''workgroup'' command on Farber and Caviness, the ''WORKDIR_MILLS'' environment variable will be set. The variable contains the directory at which the Mills workgroup directory will be present. |
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Workgroups which did not have a presence on Mills will see the following error message when trying to access the directory: | Workgroups that did not have a presence on Mills will see the following error message when trying to access the directory: |
<code> | <code> |
-bash: cd: /mnt/mills/lustre/work/«workgroup»: No such file or directory | -bash: cd: /mnt/mills/lustre/work/«workgroup»: No such file or directory |
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| ==== /archive ==== |
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| Additionally, the ''/archive'' file systems have been made available on Farber and Caviness under ''/mnt/mills/archive/«workgroup»''. |
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| Workgroups that did not have a presence on Mills will see the following error message when trying to access the directory: |
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| -bash: cd: /mnt/mills/archive/«workgroup»: No such file or directory |
</code> | </code> |