[slurm-users] Question on how to make slurm aware of a CVMFS revision

[Gennaro Oliva]

Hi Dennis,
I don't know how  cvmfs works.

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 06:40:23PM +0000, Klein, Dennis wrote:
> our slurm worker nodes mount several read-only software repositories
> via the cvmfs filesystem [1]. Each repository is versioned and each
> cvmfs mountpoint automatically switches to serving the newest revision
> eventually. But this may take a while. 

Can you do this "switch" inside a slurm job?

> A slurm job might depend on a
> certain revision of such a cvmfs repository.

In this way you can make these jobs depend on the switch job.
Best regards,
-- 
Gennaro Oliva