Yes, writes from home are "checked," which differes from single writer where the single writyer assumes that he is the only one writing and never checks a file on open, for example./ Scott Fadden GPFS Technical Marketing Desk: (503) 578-5630 Cell: (503) 880-5833 sfadden at us.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/systems/gpfs From: Barry Evans <bevans at canditmedia.co.uk> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org>, Date: 09/05/2012 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Independent-Writer Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org Goooooood - does that include writes from home? Thanks!!! Sent from my iPhone On 5 Sep 2012, at 17:40, Scott Fadden <sfadden at us.ibm.com> wrote: This is a milti-writer cache mode. This means that you can have more than one cache writing for a subtree of the global namespace. In this mode the last cache to push changes to home wins, Scott Fadden GPFS Technical Marketing (503)880-5833 Sent from my Blackberry From: Barry Evans [bevans at canditmedia.co.uk] Sent: 09/05/2012 04:50 PM CET To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Independent-Writer Hello all, I see there is a new afm mode in 3.5.0-3 called 'independent-writer' - anyone know what this does? I see that there is a changed error 6027-2181 which references it but not much info beyond that doc wise Regards, Barry Evans Technical Director CandIT Media UK Ltd +44 7500 667 671 bevans at canditmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20120905/897dddf4/attachment.html>