LSF Version 7.3 - Administering Platform LSF

Administering Platform LSF 687

C HAPTER

Non-Shared File Systems

Contents

◆ About Directories and Files on page 687

◆ Using LSF with Non-Shared File Systems on page 688

◆ Remote File Access on page 688

◆ File Transfer Mechanism (lsrcp) on page 690

About Directories and Files

LSF is designed for networks where all hosts have shared file systems, and files have

the same names on all hosts.

LSF includes support for copying user data to the execution host before running a

batch job, and for copying results back after the job executes.

In networks where the file systems are not shared, this can be used to give remote

jobs access to local data.

Supported file systems

UNIX On UNIX systems, LSF supports the following shared file systems:

◆ Network File System (NFS). NFS file systems can be mounted permanently or

on demand using

automount.

◆ Andrew File System (AFS)

◆ Distributed File System (DCE/DFS)

Windows On Windows, directories containing LSF files can be shared among hosts from a

Windows server machine.

Non-shared directories and files

LSF is usually used in networks with shared file space. When shared file space is not

available, LSF can copy needed files to the execution host before running the job,

and copy result files back to the submission host after the job completes. See

Remote File Access on page 688 for more information.