Re: [Condor-users] 6.8.0 and NFS Problem

[Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 August 2006 6:06 am, vetter wrote:
> OK, perhaps I should ask less questions:
> why is the following  message?
>
> ~> condor_submit ls.job
> Submitting job(s)
> WARNING: Log file /home/vetter/test.log is on NFS.
> This could cause log file corruption and is _not_ recommended.
> .
> Logging submit event(s).
> 1 job(s) submitted to cluster 43.

Condor can't rely on the file locking mechanisms of NFS.  In particular, user 
logs can get corrupted if written to by multiple writes (i.e. if you have 
several jobs running at the same time writing to the same log).  If your user 
job gets corrupted, this can confuse tools like DAGMan that rely on the user 
log.  We have seen this problem occur often enough that we felt it warrented 
the warning message.

Hope this helps

-Nick

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