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

[Gus Correa]

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?

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
>
>