[mpich-discuss] [OMPI users] cleaning up old ROMIO (MPI-IO) drivers

[Rob Latham]

On 01/05/2016 11:43 AM, Gus Correa wrote:
> Hi Rob
>
> Your email says you'll keep PVFS2.
> However, on your blog PVFS2 is not mentioned (on the "Keep" list).
> I suppose it will be kept, right?

Right. An oversight on my part.  PVFS2 will stay.

==rob

>
> Thank you,
> Gus Correa
>
> On 01/05/2016 12:31 PM, Rob Latham wrote:
>> I'm itching to discard some of the little-used file system drivers in
>> ROMIO, an MPI-IO implementation used by, well, everyone.
>>
>> I've got more details in this ROMIO blog post:
>> http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/romio/2016/01/05/cleaning-out-old-romio-file-system-drivers/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Right now the plan is to keep these drivers:
>>
>> - Lustre
>> - GPFS
>> - UFS
>> - PVFS2
>> - PANFS
>> - NFS
>> - TESTFS
>> - XFS
>>
>> Do you use any of the other ROMIO file system drivers?  If you don't
>> know if you do, or don't know what a ROMIO file system driver is, then
>> it's unlikely you are using one.
>>
>> What if you use a driver and it's not on the list?  First off, let me
>> know and I will probably want to visit your site and take a picture of
>> your system.  Then, let me know how much longer you foresee using the
>> driver and we'll create a "deprecated" list for N more years.
>>
>> Thanks
>> ==rob
>>
>>
>
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