[slurm-users] Slurm version 20.11.5 is now available

[William Brown]

We build with CSI hardened nodes and /tmp is marked to block execution. It
causes occasional frustration but it would be important to be able to
redirect to a file system that allowed execution.

William

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 13:28 Paul Edmon, <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> I was about to ask this as well as we use /scratch as our tmp space not
> /tmp.  I haven't kicked the tires on this to know how it works but after
> I take a look at it I will probably file a feature request to make the
> name of the tmp dir flexible.
>
> -Paul Edmon-
>
> On 3/19/2021 7:19 AM, Tina Friedrich wrote:
> > That's excellent; I've been using the 'auto_tmpdir' plugin for this;
> > having that functionality within SLURM will be good.
> >
> > Have a question though - we have a need to also create a per-job
> > /scratch/ (on a shared fast file system) in much the same way.
> >
> > I don't see a way that the currentl tmpfs plugin can be used to do
> > that, as it would seem that it's hard-coded to mount things into /tmp/
> > (i.e. where to mount a file system can not be changed). Or am I
> > misreading this?
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On 16/03/2021 22:26, Tim Wickberg wrote:
> >> One errant backspace snuck into that announcement: the
> >> job_container.conf man page (with an 'r') serves as the initial
> >> documentation for this new job_container/tmpfs plugin. The link to
> >> the HTML version of the man page has been corrected in the text below:
> >>
> >> On 3/16/21 4:16 PM, Tim Wickberg wrote:
> >>> We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 20.11.5.
> >>>
> >>> This includes a number of moderate severity bug fixes, alongside a
> >>> new job_container/tmpfs plugin developed by NERSC that can be used
> >>> to create per-job filesystem namespaces.
> >>>
> >>> Initial documentation for this plugin is available at:
> >>> https://slurm.schedmd.com/job_container.conf.html
> >>> Slurm can be downloaded from https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php .
> >>>
> >>> - Tim
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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