[slurm-users] Slurm.conf and workers

Dear slurm-user list,

as far as I understood it, the slurm.conf needs to be present on the master and on the workers at slurm.conf (if no other path is set via SLURM_CONF). However, I noticed that when adding a partition only in the master's slurm.conf, all workers were able to "correctly" show the added partition when calling sinfo on them.

Is the stored slurm.conf on every instance just a fallback for when connection is down or what is the purpose? The documentation only says: "This file should be consistent across all nodes in the cluster."

Best regards, Xaver