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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
[General Questions]
Who should use BeeGFS?
Everyone with an interest in fast, flexible, and easy to manage storage. This is typically the case for HPC clusters, but BeeGFS was designed to also work well on smaller deployments like a group of workstations or even heterogeneous systems with different hardware architectures.
Is BeeGFS suitable for production use?
Yes, absolutely! BeeGFS is not a proof-of-concept or research implementation. BeeGFS was designed for production use since the beginning of its development and is fully supported by Fraunhofer and our international partners.
What are the minimum system requirements to run BeeGFS?
Currently, native BeeGFS client and server components are available for Linux on x86, x86_64 and PowerPC/Cell architectures. In general, all BeeGFS components can run on a single machine with only a single CPU core, a single hard disk and less than 1GB of RAM. But this is probably not what you want to do in practice, so here are some recommendations for your hardware configuration:
- Storage Server:
- A storage server should have at least 4GB of RAM to have enough memory available for caching and client connection buffers. 1GB of RAM per attached disk is generally a good choice, depending on the actual type of disk and number of file system clients.
- If you are using traditional SATA hard drives (i.e. not SSDs or fast SAS drives), you will typically want to use a RAID with at least 8 drives per server.
- Even though storage server tasks are generally not very CPU-intensive, the Linux buffer caches can produce high CPU load with fast RAID arrays, so it is often good to have a fast CPU here to enable high throughput, especially on high speed networks.
- Keep an eye on the balance between number of disks (in the whole system and per server), network interconnect bandwidth, and number of file system clients. (E.g. depending on your use case, it might not make sense to use more than 12 hard drives per server if the servers are equipped with only a 10Gb interconnect.)
- Metadata Server:
- If you are working primarily with large files then there is not much work to do for the metadata server and you might just want to run it on the same machines that are running as storage servers and on the same hard disk partitions.
- On clusters with very different kinds of workloads, you might still want to run the metadata server daemon on the storage server machines (to have a high number of metadata servers without spending the extra money for dedicated machines), but you will probably want to use dedicated disks inside your storage servers for metadata.
Since metadata servers are doing a lot of small disk random access (i.e. they are reading and writing a lot of small files) there might be a significant performance impact for storage and metadata access if both are located on the same disks. We also often see in pratice that RAID controllers have (performance) problems when managing different RAID volume types for metadata and storage servers, so you typically also want to have metadata on a separate RAID controller.
You might also want to use a dedicated network interface for metadata, since streaming network transfers can have a significant impact on metadata access latency at the network level.
- CPU-usage on metadata servers can be high if you have a high number of clients dealing with many (small) files. So make sure to use a fast CPU and fast drives (usually SSDs) to guarantee low access latency to metadata.
- The amount of space needed for metadata in comparison to the total storage capacity depends on the actual use case (i.e. the average user file size). For a scratch file system, the space needed for metadata is typically about 0.5% of the total storage capacity.
- Client:
- The patchless client kernel module requires Linux kernel 2.6.18 or higher. No specific Linux distribution is required for the client and you are free to use even a recent vanilla kernel. Since the client components of BeeGFS are designed to be very light-weight, there are no special RAM or CPU requirements.
- Management Daemon:
- The management daemon uses only minimal CPU cycles and memory. Access to the management daemon is not relevant for file system performance. Just run this daemon on any of the storage/metadata servers or on your cluster master.
- Admon Daemon:
- The admon daemon is frequently storing and querying a lot of values from its internal database, so it will run some storage transactions and use a moderate amount of RAM and CPU cycles. It is often fine to run it on any of the other storage/metadata server machines, but your cluster master might be a better place for this daemon to make sure that there is no impact on file system performance.
Which network types are supported by BeeGFS?
BeeGFS supports all TCP/IP based networks and the native Infiniband protocol (based on OFED ibverbs). Servers and clients can handle requests from different networks at the same time (e.g. your servers can be equipped with Infiniband and Ethernet interconnects and some clients connect via native Infiniband while the rest connects via TCP/Ethernet). Clients with multiple connection paths (like Infiniband and Ethernet or multiple Ethernet ports) can also do network failover if the primary connection path fails.
Can I test-drive BeeGFS for free?
Yes, BeeGFS can be downloaded and used free of charge without any limitations.
Do I need a SAN or any kind of shared storage to run BeeGFS?
No, BeeGFS is not a storage area network (SAN) file system and it does not rely on shared access to storage. Typical hardware configurations for BeeGFS consist of multiple servers with internal (or external non-shared) RAID storage.
Does BeeGFS provide high-availability?
Starting with the 2012.10 release series, BeeGFS provides optional metadata and file contents redundancy (replication). In the 2015.03 release series this concept was extended with additional high availability features for transparent failover. Please see here for more information (or here if you still use a release prior to 2015.03).
Besides that, you are also free to implement cold failover with active/active server pairs based on shared storage and external tools like e.g. Heartbeat or Pacemaker. This will allow access to your existing data in case of a machine failure, although BeeGFS is using write caching on the servers, so cold failovers might not be fully transparent for running applications.
To setup active/active pairs with failover based on external tools, you will need to run a new instance of the failed daemon on another machine, so that two instances of the same daemon are running on one machine (using different network protocol ports) when one machine is down. To make the failover BeeGFS daemon instance appear like the original daemon, you will need to also move IP addresses to the failover machine and make sure the failover daemon instance uses the same NodeID on the failover host. (See section "Configuration & Tuning" on this page for information on how to manually define a NodeID instead of using the hostname as NodeID.)
Note that the customer wiki contains more details on this topic.
Can I do everything that can be done with the Admon GUI from the command-line?
Yes, installation, configuration and status queries can also be done via the command line:
- Installation basically comes down to installing the RPM or DEB the packages from the yum/apt repositories and setting a few config file values.
- For starting and stopping the services (including the client mount), there are init scripts: /etc/init.d/beegfs-X.
- Run-time configuration changes (like striping settings) and status queries can be made with the BeeGFS Online Configuration Tool (beegfs-ctl on a client).
Is BeeGFS open-source?
Yes, see here: Source Download
What does the abbreviation FhGFS mean?
FhGFS is the old name of BeeGFS®, which is now named after the nice and busy animals that work together as a swarm and do their important job mostly unnoticed in the background.
FhG: The German name of the Fraunhofer Society is Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, its official abbreviation is FhG.
FS: FS is short for File System.
Note: Since the meaning of the letter G in FhGFS is not always obvious, some people started calling FhGFS the Fraunhofer Global File System or Fraunhofer GFS or sometimes even just Fraunhofer.
How does BeeGFS distribute metadata?
BeeGFS distributes metadata on a per-directory basis. This means each directory in your filesystem can be managed by a different metadata server. When a new directory is created, the system automatically picks one of the available metadata servers to be responsible for the files inside this directory. New subdirectories of this directory can be assigned to other metadata servers, so that load is balanced across all available metadata servers.
How to backup metadata?
As extended attributes are typically not copied by default by many backup tools, here are three different ways to backup metadata, which is stored in extended attributes. However, these are just examples. Other tools like rsync also have options to preserve extended attributes and hardlinks and thus could be used to backup BeeGFS metadata.
- Note that starting with the 2012.10 release series, BeeGFS metadata also uses hardlinks on the underlying file system. It is important that these hardlinks are preserved when metadata is backuped and restored.
To reduce the overall runtime, you might want to combine your backup with tools like "xargs" (see parameter "--max-procs") or "GNU parallel" to run multiple processes in parallel, each on a subset of the directory structure.
- Method 1: Using GNU tar without support for extended attributes
- Older GNU tar versions did not have support for extended attributes, so two metadata backup steps are required with tar and getfattr.
- Backup of the data:
$ cd /path/to/beegfs/meta_parent_dir
$ tar czvf /path/to/archive/meta.tar.gz metadir/
$ getfattr -R -d -P metadir/ > /path/to/archive/ea.bak
- Restoring the backup:
$ cd /path/to/beegfs/meta_parent_dir
$ tar xvf /path/archive/meta.tar.gz
$ setfattr --restore=/path/to/archive/ea.bak
- Method 2: Using GNU tar with support for extended attributes
- Recent upstream GNU tar versions support extended attributes, RHEL6 tar versions are patched to support the backup of extended attributes.
- On RHEL, at least version tar-1.23-7.el6 (RHEL6.3) should be used. Earlier RHEL tar versions have a serious bug, which would make it impossible to restore backup files.
- Backup of the data:
$ cd /path/to/beegfs/meta_parent_dir
$ tar czvf /path/to/archive/meta.tar.gz metadir/ --xattrs
- Restoring the backup:
$ cd /path/to/beegfs/meta_parent_dir
$ tar xvf /path/to/archive/meta.tar.gz --xattrs
- Recent upstream GNU tar versions support extended attributes, RHEL6 tar versions are patched to support the backup of extended attributes.
- Method 3: Using star (http://freecode.com/projects/star)
- star is an alternative to GNU tar, which supports backups of extended attributes.
- Backup of the data:
$ cd /path/to/beegfs/meta_parent_dir
$ star czv artype=exustar -xattr -f /path/to/archive/meta.tar.gz metadir/
- Restoring the backup:
$ cd /path/to/beegfs/meta_parent_dir
$ star xzv -xattr -f /path/to/archive/meta.tar.gz metadir/
Additional Notes:
- To be sure that EAs have been backuped, it is recommended to test that the commands above work in your environment. This test could be done with a subdir (e.g. metadir/inodes/1D/4F/) to check if a backup and restore of this directory works. Restored data should be tested with 'getfattr -d metadir/inodes/1D/4F/some_file' to check if those files still have BeeGFS extended attributes.
- The hardlink count of a metadata file can be checked with the stat tool (e.g. stat metadir/dentries/.../some_file), which will show a links count greater than 1 if a file has hardlinks.
[Installation and Startup]
Where can I find information about why an Admon-based installation of BeeGFS fails?
If you tried to install BeeGFS by using the Administration and Monitoring GUI, there are two log facilities that can provide useful information:
- The installation log file on the server: You can read it by choosing "Installation" -> "Installation Log File" in the GUI
- The log file of the Java GUI: This log file is stored in the directory ".beegfs inside your home directory (beegfs-admon-gui.log).
We are not using one of the distributions you are providing packages for, which means we cannot install RPM or DEB packages. What can we do to try BeeGFS?
You can try to download the RPM packages for Suse or Red Hat and unpack them with rpm2cpio and cpio (rpm2cpio packname | cpio -i). Afterwards, you might need to change the init scripts to work with your distribution. We cannot guarantee that BeeGFS will work with your distribution, but it is worth a try.
Do I need to be ''root'' to run BeeGFS?
Yes and no. You do not need root access to start the servers, as these are all userspace processes (of course, you need to change the configuration files to store the file system data and log files at places, where you have write access).
The client is a kernel module. To load the module and mount the file system, you normally need to have root privileges. As an alternative, it is also possible to grant permissions to execute the corresponding commands for non-root users via /etc/sudoers.
Is it possible to run storage servers and clients on the same machine?
Yes, it is. You do not need dedicated hosts for any service in BeeGFS. For example, it is possible to have one host running a management daemon, a metadata server, a storage server and a client at the same time.
Is it possible to run multiple instances of the same daemon on the same machine?
Yes, it is. Starting with the 2012.10 release series, the standard BeeGFS service init scripts (/etc/init.d/beegfs-XY) can manage multiple instances of the same daemon on a machine. To enable support for this, see the comment on MULTI_MODE in /etc/default/beegfs-XY.
For multi-mode, you will need to create a separate configuration file for the other daemon instance, using different network ports, a different storage directory, a different log file and so on. If the second daemon instance on a machine should become part of the same file system instance (i.e. it registers at the same management daemon as the first daemon instance on this machine), then you would also need to set a different NodeID manually for the second daemon instance. (See "Configuration & Tuning" section on this page for information on how to manually set the NodeID.)
For the client, multi-mode is also available, but the client mount config file (/etc/beegfs/beegfs-mounts.conf) also allows specification of multiple mount points without enabled multi-mode, by adding one or more additional lines of mountpoint and corresponding client config file. (Note: Make sure to specify different client ports in the different client config files.)
The BeeGFS-on-demand script (/opt/beegfs/sbin/beegfs-ondemand-v2) from the beegfs-utils package is another possible way to run a separate BeeGFS instance, especially on a per-job basis for clusters or in cloud environments.
Do I need a special Linux kernel for BeeGFS?
BeeGFS client modules require at least kernel version 2.6.18, but apart from that, BeeGFS does not need a special kernel: The client kernel modules were designed patchless (so you don't need to apply any kernel patches and don't even need to reboot to install and run the BeeGFS client) and the server components of BeeGFS run as userspace daemons, so they are independent of the kernel version.
Does BeeGFS need time synchronization between different machines?
Yes, the time of all BeeGFS client and server machines needs to be synchronized for various reasons, e.g. to provide consistent file modification timestamps and for consistent ID generation. Make sure all server clocks are set to the correct time and date (e.g. with date or ntpdate) before starting up BeeGFS services.
A service like ntp can then be used to keep the clocks of all machines in sync.
How to upgrade from one BeeGFS major release series to another?
For an upgrade from version 2009.08 to version 2011.04, see here for instructions.
For an upgrade from version 2011.04 to version 2012.10, see here for instructions.
For an upgrade from version 2012.10 to version 2014.01, see here for instructions.
Why do I get an 'Access denied' error on the client even with correct permissions?
Please check if you have SELinux enabled on the client machine. If it is enabled, disabling it should solve your problem. SELinux can be disabled by setting SELINUX=disabled in the config file /etc/selinux/config. Afterwards, you might need to reboot your client for the new setting to become effective.
How can I configure BeeGFS to use ACLs?
In BeeGFS, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are stored as extended file attributes of metadata files. Therefore, you need to make sure that such feature is enabled in the underlying file systems of both the metadata nodes and the client nodes. For example, in an ext4 file system, the options used to mount the storage devices must include user_xattr. Nevertheless, in recent Linux distributions, this option is set by default when file systems that support extended attributes are mounted.
After that, make sure that you are using at least the BeeGFS release 2015.03-r13, which fully supports ACLs. Then, edit the metadata configuration file (/etc/beegfs/beegfs-meta.conf) and check if the following options are set to true.
storeUseExtendedAttribs = true
storeClientXAttrs = true
storeClientACLs = true
storeClientXAttrs = true
storeClientACLs = true
By default, the option storeUseExtendedAttribs is set to true during installation. It can only be changed before the first service startup. If you want to change it afterwards, you will have to reinstall the service.
If you change the metadata configuration file, remember to restart the service afterwards. Keep an eye on the metadata and client log files so that you can spot any error that occurs.
How much disk-space is required for metadata?
This depends on things like the average file size that you have or how many files you want to be able to create in total.
In general, we recommend to have about 0.5% of the total storage capacity for metadata. However, this number is based on gathered statistics of file systems at different cluster sites and thus might or might not fit for your case.
As a rule of thumb, 500GB of metadata capacity are sufficient for about 200 million files, if the underlying metadata storage is formatted with ext4 according to the recommendations in the metadata server tuning guide: Metadata Server Tuning
More specifically, for every file that a user creates, one metadata file is created on one of the metadata servers. For every directory that a user creates, two directories and two metadata files are created on one of the metadata servers.
For file metadata, if the underlying local metadata server file system (e.g. ext4) is formatted according to our recommendations with large inodes (e.g. "mkfs.ext4 -I 512", as described here: Metadata Server Tuning) then the BeeGFS metadata as extended attribute fits completely into the inode of the underlying local file system and does not use any additional disk space. If the underlying metadata server file system is not formatted with large inodes, then the underlying local file system will need to allocate a full block (usually 4KB) to store the BeeGFS metadata information in addition to using up one inode.
Access Control Lists (ACLs) and user extended attributes are also stored as extended attributes in the corresponding metadata files and thus add to the required disk space, depending on whether they still fit into the inode or whether a new block needs to be allocated.
For each directory, one inode and one directory contents block (usually 4KB) are used on the underlying local file system until there are so many subentries in the directory that another directory contents block needs to be allocated by the underlying file system. How many entries fit into one block depends on things like user file name length, but usually 10+ entries fit into one directory block.
So if a user creates e.g. many directories with only one file inside them, this will significantly increase the used number of inodes and disk space on the underlying local file system compare to the case where the same number of files is stored in fewer directories.
Note that while ext4 is generally recommended for metadata storage because of its performance advantages for BeeGFS metadata workloads compared to other local Linux file systems, xfs has the advantage of using a dynamic number of inodes, meaning new inodes can be created as long as there is free disk space. ext4 on the other is based on a static number maximum number of inodes that is defined when the file system is formatted via mkfs (e.g. "mkfs.ext4 -i <number>"). So it can happen with ext4 that you have disk space left but run out of available inodes or vice versa. Use "df -ih" to see information on available inodes for mounted file systems.
[Configuration and Tuning]
Where can I find system tuning recommendations?
There are a lot of tuning possibilities to increase performance - not only in BeeGFS, but also in the Linux kernel, the underlying local file systems, the hardware drivers etc. Please have a look at the Tuning Guide for tips and recommendations on system tuning.
How can I remove a node from an existing file system?
Use the BeeGFS Control Tool beegfs-ctl (contained in the beegfs-utils package) if you need to unregister a server from the file system:
- $ beegfs-ctl --removenode --nodetype=meta <nodeID> (for a metadata node)
- $ beegfs-ctl --removenode --nodetype=storage <nodeID> (for a storage node)
Note: If you want to move files from a storage server to the other storage servers before removing, see here: "Is it possible to free up a storage target before removal?"
Is it possible to free up a storage target before removal?
The beegfs-ctl tool has a mode called "migrate", which allows you to move all files from a certain storage target to other storage targets.
- $ beegfs-ctl --migrate --help
Note: Migration is directory-based and currently single-threaded, so a single migration instance may perform well below the capabilities of the hardware. It is possible to start multiple non-interfering instances of "beegfs-ctl --migrate" on the same client (or different clients) for different directory trees, e.g. one instance for /mnt/beegfs/subdir1 and another instance for /mnt/beegfs/subdir2.
I did some testing and want to start over again. Is there an easy way to delete all residues from the old file system?
To revert your installation to a completely clean file system, you can follow these steps:
- Stop all clients and servers (via the Admon GUI or via /etc/init.d/beegfs-X stop)
- Delete the data directories of the metadata servers, storage servers and the management daemon (these are the directories named "store...Directory" in the corresponding /etc/beegfs/beegfs-X.conf config files)
- Start all servers and clients again
My hosts have more than one network interface. Is there a way of configuring BeeGFS to use only certain interfaces or certain networks?
Yes, there are two different settings that can be used to achieve this:
- In the config file of each service, there is an option called connNetFilterFile. It can be used to activate IP address range based filtering. This setting will allow outgoing connection attempts of a BeeGFS service only to the set of specified IP addresses, which is useful if a client (or other service) should not try to connect to certain exported interface IPs of another node, e.g. because some of the interface IPs might not be reachable from the current network or are meant for internal use only.
- In the config file of each service, there is an option called connInterfacesFile. By specifying a file with a list of interfaces (one per line) here, you can control which interfaces a BeeGFS service registers at the management daemon and in which order they should be tried during connection attempts by other nodes. For instance, if your node has eth0 and eth1, but you only add eth1 to the interfaces file, then the other servers/clients won't know that there is another interface for that server and hence will not try to connect to other interface.
Is it possible to force a certain node ID or target ID for BeeGFS servers?
Short answer:
Yes. Use the corresponding setup script of each service to manually define IDs:
$ /opt/beegfs/sbin/beegfs-setup-XY
(Add "-h" argument for help and usage examples.)
(Add "-h" argument for help and usage examples.)
Long answer:
First of all you should know that BeeGFS uses 2 different kinds of IDs for a server node.
- Numeric IDs are 16-bit values in range 1..65535.
The string-based node ID is most important to the user/administrator, because it is the ID you will see in log messages to conveniently identify the servers. But internally, BeeGFS uses the numeric IDs, mostly because they can be used more efficiently.
Each BeeGFS server daemon checks for special files inside their storage directory during startup. To force certain IDs instead of having them generated automatically, you would create these special files before first startup of a BeeGFS server daemon.
The names of these special files are:
- nodeID: string-based node ID
- nodeNumID: numeric node ID
- targetID: string-based target ID (only for storage server targets)
- targetNumID: numeric target ID (only for storage server targets)
Assuming you want to set the string-based node ID of your first storage server to "storage01" and the numeric ID to "1". The first storage server also provides the first storage target, so you would want to set the string-based target ID to "target01" and the numeric target ID to "1". (The storeStorageDirectory in /etc/beegfs/beegfs-storage.conf for this example is set to /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage.)
To force these IDs, you would use the commands below before starting up the beegfs-storage daemon for the first time:
$ echo storage01 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/nodeID
$ echo 1 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/nodeNumID
$ echo target01 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/targetID
$ echo 1 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/targetNumID
$ echo 1 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/nodeNumID
$ echo target01 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/targetID
$ echo 1 > /mnt/myraid/beegfs_storage/targetNumID
The ID settings can be confirmed by checking the server log file (/var/log/beegfs-storage.log) after starting up the daemon. Or by querying the management server:
$ beegfs-ctl --listnodes --nodetype=storage
$ beegfs-ctl --listtargets --longnodes
$ beegfs-ctl --listtargets --longnodes
Important notes:
- These IDs are an essential part of all lookups in BeeGFS. Do not change IDs after starting up a daemon for the first time (or BeeGFS would no longer be able to retrieve the data that was stored based on the old ID).
- An ID only needs to be unique in its class. So a metadata server daemon and a storage server daemon may have the same node ID, but two metadata servers (or two storage servers) may not use the same ID.
- Numeric IDs were introduced with the 2012.10 release series. Before that, only string-based IDs existed.
- String-based IDs and numeric IDs are strongly tied together. It is not possible to change the string-based ID, while still using the old numeric ID.
What needs to be done when a server hostname has changed?
Scenario: 'hostname' or '$HOSTNAME' report a different name than during the BeeGFS installation and BeeGFS servers refuse to start up. Logs tell the nodeID has changed and therefore a startup was refused.
Note that by default, node IDs are generated based on the hostname of a server. As IDs are not allowed to change, see here for information on how to manually set your ID back to the previous value: "Is it possible to force a certain node ID or target ID for BeeGFS servers?"
My client refuses to mount because of an 'unknown storage target'
Scenario: While testing BeeGFS, you removed the storage directory of a storage server, but kept the storage directory of the management server. Now the BeeGFS client refuses to mount and prints an error about an unknown storage target to the log file.
What happened to your file system: When you start a new beegfs-storage daemon with a given storage directory, the daemon initializes this directory by assigning an ID to this storage target path and registering this targetID at the management server.
When you delete this directory, the storage server creates a new directory on next startup with a new ID and also registers this ID at the management server. (Because the storage server cannot know what happend to the old directory and whether you might have just moved the data to another machine, so it needs a new ID here.)
When the client starts, it performs a sanity check by querying all registered targetIDs from the mangement server and checks whether all of them are accessible. If you removed a storage directory, this check fails and thus the client refuses to mount. (Note: This sanity check can be disabled, but it is definitely a good thing in this case and saves you from more trouble.)
Now you have two alternative options...
Solution A: Simply remove the storage directories of all BeeGFS services to start with a clean new file system:
1) Stop all the BeeGFS server daemons, i.e. beegfs-mgmtd, beegfs-meta, beegfs-storage:
$ /etc/init.d/beegfs-... stop (or use the Admon GUI).2) Delete ("rm -rf") all their storage directories. The paths to the server storage directores can be looked up in the server config files:
- storeMgmtdDirectory in config file /etc/beegfs/beegfs-mgmtd.conf
- storeMetaDirectory in config file /etc/beegfs/beegfs-meta.conf
- storeStorageDirectory in config file /etc/beegfs/beegfs-storage.conf
Now you have a fresh new file system without any of the previously registered targetIDs.
Solution B: Unregister the invalid targetID from the management server:
For this, you would first use the beegfs-ctl tool (the tool is part of the beegfs-utils package on a client) to list the registered target IDs:
$ beegfs-ctl --listtargets --longnodesThen check the contents of the file "targetNumID" in your storage directory on the storage server to find out which targetID is the current one that you want to keep.
For all other targetIDs from the list, which are assigned to this storage server but are no longer valid, use this command to unregister them from the management daemon:
$ beegfs-ctl --unmaptarget <targetID>Afterwards, your client will no longer complain about the missing storage targets.
Note: There are options in the server config files to disallow initialization of new storage directories and registration of new servers or targets, which are not set by default, but should be set for production environments. See storeAllowFirstRunInit and sysAllowNewServers.
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I am currently studying textile design and am interested in all elements of design and of various art practices. I practice in the mediums of textiles and fashion design, film photography, creative writing. I am always curious about new ways of seeing and interpreting our existence through various methods.
I like to find myself amongst foreign elements that lead way to the greatest explorations and discoveries.
I am interested in subtle beauty and the delicate nature of existence. The Other and the unknown has always fascinated me.
Photography,literature, poetry, fashion and textiles, architecture and travel are amongst the most fascinating for me.
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I like many types of music from ambient to classic, to instrumental and to jazz. Some of my current favourites are Max Richter, Stars of the Lid, The Knife, Coco Rosie, Yann Tiersen, Abel Korzeniowski, Eric Satie, Arvo Part, John Cage, Radiohead, Mount Kimbie, Banks, Nils Frahm.
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Amongst my favourite directors are Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Park Chan-Wook, Xavier Dolan, Steve McQueen, Lars Von Trier.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Driving through the moonland, deep in the Indian mountains. The night is calm, we are weary, delusional from many hours of travel. Retiring from out car, feet hitting gravol, looking up and discovering that the Universe has wrapped you in a blanket of stars. Illuminating all, they hung so closely, dissolving any barrier that we though had existed.
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Currently riding a KHS Flite 100 custom build and looking to upgrade the frameset on a minimal budget. I ride fixed only just for fun and running errands on the street, no commuting or tricks, just hopping on/off/over the occasional curb/step. I encounter plenty of hills and also hit the local outdoor 'drome off-hours once in awhile. Appreciate your opinions and experiences, so please let me know what you think! Here are my thoughts and questions:
Wouldn't mind upgrading this double butted 520 to slightly better steel so I've been considering the IRO Mark V Pro & Jamis Sputnik w/631 and Soma Rush w/Tange Prestige. None of these are straight gauge and they're all heat-treated, right?
Lookswise, I've really been wanting something more streamlined. Always hated the fender eyelets on the KHS since I'll never run them on this bike. Things like that and cable guides are a deal-breaker for the next frame, so none of those 3 have them. IRO goes a step further and gets rid of the rear brake mount, so that's a plus since I only run an emergency front brake. All the others are drilled for both, which isn't a big deal. I really like that the lack of water bottle bosses on my KHS, which I wouldn't use anyways. IRO has 0, he Soma has 1 which I can prob live with, but the Jamis has 2 which is an eyesore so I"m not so sure. Each frame is offered in either white or black or both, so I'm mostly indifferent for color choice. A horizontal tt w/no slope is a must, and they all have it. Tight tire clearances are a must, as well as the ability to fit 700x25-28 tires, so correct me if I'm wrong, but all 3 seem to fit that criteria?
After coming from an old Fuji conversion, I've enjoyed the nimble track geo of my KHS from day one and everyday for the past year with no concerns re: toe overlap or twitchiness. Of course the trade-off is that I've sacrificed some comfort on longer ~30 mile rides, but I've been able to live with it. If I'm reading the geometry charts correctly, the IRO/Jamis are more relaxed, so the Soma wins on this one, right? Jamis comes with a CF fork which would be nice for soaking up road vibrations, but then I hear it'll only clear a 700x23 tire. Can anyone confirm/deny if that's true of any of the 3? Although I prefer the classic look of the curved/lugged fork on the Soma/KHS, I actually kind of like the look of the IRO's straightblade fork, but how will that affect the ride/handling vs. the curved ones on all the others? I'm not asking about rake, just fork design.


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As of this date. I just found the Planet Bike Superflash for $11 here. http://stores.ebay.com/Abaxo_Lights_...34Q2ec0Q2em322
I just paid $29 for it at my LBS. Which happens to be a Performance store. Next time.
As of this date. I just found the Planet Bike Superflash for $11 here. http://stores.ebay.com/Abaxo_Lights_...34Q2ec0Q2em322
I just paid $29 for it at my LBS. Which happens to be a Performance store. Next time.
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Shipping: $13.83
Total: $24.70
... not such a great deal. You can find it online at reputable dealers for about $19. And if you want, print out the page of one of those dealers and take it to Performance Bike, and they'll pricematch it. So you can get it for $19+tax with no shipping, and have it today.
I ordered one PBSF from Abaxo also but paid $21.85 with free shipping. Should be here as early as tomorrow. I could get most of my cycling stuff from local stores such as REI or Performance but then the sales tax is a killer at 10%. Shopping on e bay is like going into a virtual flea market and I'm satisfied with all my online purchases. Saves also on gas by not driving to the
store and fighting traffic.
I didn't even think of looking at the shipping price of them. I had my eye on a set of brakes in which they offered free shipping and assumed it was free shipping for everything. My mistake........they still have nice components at good prices.
Uniquefire S10 Cree R2-WC 6-Mode 220-Lumen. I like the idea it is using a single AA (I use GP 2300 NiMH 2300mAh) and no battery pack because I have plenty of those. As I already have a handlebar LED I wanted something I could mount on my helmet. After some time of failing to find something suitable for me, I thought I should craft something myself that would be cheap, practical and sturdy.
If you would like to see what I came up with, try here.
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Let me know if you decided to make your own. It is easy and fun!
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shiningbeam has a relatively new rc-n3 up for sale http://www.shiningbeam.com/servlet/t...h-N3-II/Detail
for a dollar more than the Q5 you get a tad bit of a brighter light with a slight green tint.
though i wouldn't say it's a *better* bike light than the 2-mode Q5, since it does have a very white tint which i think would be more noticeable making the output difference between the lights negligible.
The choices for affordable, efficient lighting just keeps getting better. When I started the commuting thing, the Fenix was the way to go. Now I can get a light almost as good as the Fenix for less than $15.
My latest purchase....http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30986
Great little light.
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
it's a pretty decent seeing light.
i was following a friend riding mt wilson with my headlights off and soley relying on the rc-n3 (though the moon was pretty bright that day). he reached about 45 on the descents.
i wouldn't call it amazing, but it sure is better than a lot of the lights i encounter people using.
I've had an RC-N3 for 3 years now and I can say that its a "perfect" light to been seen and to see with. It lights up the road in front of you to see chuckholes and debris. I use it all winter and have'nt had any problems with it up to now. I'm getting the new one for a back-up. For under $50 you can't beat this light. I get about 2.5 hrs on Ray-O-Vac Hybrid rechargeable batteries. Which ends up being about three days worth of morning commuting for me. I haven't had to buy batteries for over two years now. I stay away from DealExtreme cause they're in Hong Kong. To much hassle with shipping. Shiningbeam is in NYC. Better Customer quality.
I know that a bunch of what those three vendors offer can be had cheaper at DX. It's just that I prefer as much of my $ as possible to stay in domestic hands...
I've got the Romisen RC-N3 II R4 (the current model). No blinking mode. High and medium are so close together as to be useless. Nowhere near 220 lumens. My Fenix LD20+, which is supposed to be 205 lumens, is considerably brighter than the RC-N3.
Yea but you have to admit. For 24 bucks. The Romissen is a heckuva good deal. The LD20 being an excellent light is over the $50 limit that this thread is all about. And if I had to replace the Romissen, which I've had thru 3 winters now, I'd still go with the RC-N3 because like me, they're cheap.
I came in to ask about the Blackburn Flea light from performance:
I have(had) the MTE light from DX worked awesome for the 3 months I had it. Now it wont turn on. And DX's tech support has the suck. But I might have to give this little guy a chance, Romisen RC-N3 II
No one?
Well - it say it specs out at 40 lumen - not exactly a true head light.
If we just talk lights - get this and buy your choice of cheap or super battery and charger.
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Two Fender representatives approach Al Jardine during an interview to talk guitars. They have 1962 reissue Jaguars to give to Jardine and the man who briefly replaced him in the Beach Boys, David Marks, for that day's rehearsal at Center Staging in Burbank, Calif.
"We'll take whatever you have," Jardine tells them. "We were looking for Stratocasters, but we can't find them."
"They're about 100 yards away from here," one of the reps says.
The Beach Boys - Jardine, Marks, Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston - set up camp at the Burbank rehearsal studio in early April to prepare for their 50th-anniversary tour, a high-profile reunion of one of the greatest groups in American pop music.
With a dozen members of Wilson's band and two guys from Love's outfit, the current lineup has learned more than 50 Beach Boys songs for their tour of the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia that runs through August.
The concerts mark the first time in 20 years that Wilson has toured with fellow founding members of the group and coincide with the release of "That's Why God Made the Radio," the first new studio album featuring Wilson, Love, Jardine and Johnston since the "Beach Boys" album in 1985.
The tour and album, in turn, are part of an expansive 50th-anniversary campaign (see story, page 44) to celebrate the legacy of a band that has charted more than 30 top 40 hits on the Billboard 100 and sold 14 million albums and 5.9 million digital songs during the Nielsen SoundScan era.
Hits and sales aside, the group - thanks largely to the songwriting and production genius of Wilson - has long been recognized as a master of American pop music. "What amazing songs," wrote Jon Pareles of the New York Times in the lead sentence of his review of the group's May 8 show at New York's Beacon Theatre.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Beach Boys in 1988 and the Recording Academy bestowed its lifetime achievement award on the group in 2001.
On the day of this interview, a four-hour rehearsal has been reserved for the ensemble to work on the leadoff single/title track from the new album.
Produced by Wilson and executive-produced by Love, "That's Why God Made the Radio" was recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles and will be released by Capitol/EMI on June 5.
"Capitol stepped right up to the plate - a lot better than they did the first time around," Johnston says. "I love being signed to a major because you can do things the correct way. I used to be an A&R guy at Columbia Records with Terry Melcher when I was 21 years old and I took all of this for granted. Years fly by and people are making albums on their own and they sell them for $10, and if they sell 10,000 they're happy. I'd rather make $1 an album, sell a million and reach more people."
To promote the album, the band took a trip to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., to meet and play its new music for iTunes executives. "That was very productive," Jardine says. "We used to go to radio stations and record stores, and here it's all in one place-35%-40% of all the music sales in a place that looks like a new college campus."
The band's 50th-anniversary tour began in Tucson, Ariz., on April 24 and has already included a stop at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia will be visited by year's end (see story, page 56).
The exact moment that the men of the Beach Boys decided to reunite is cloudy - each of them vaguely refers to managers assembling to clear paths - but Jardine did start to express a desire to do a 50th celebration after the band appeared atop the Capitol Records Tower on June 13, 2006, to receive a double-platinum award for the 2003 hits compilation "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys."
"I don't think we talked about a tour or a record at that time," Love recalls. "But when we got back together the first song we did was 'Do It Again.'"
"Al started the rumor that it would happen a few years ago, so give him credit for perpetuating that," says Marks, who replaced Jardine early on and stayed in the band for a short while upon Jardine's return. He was also in a late-'90s edition of the Beach Boys. "As the rumor built, more and more people said, 'Hey, this can happen.'"
Once together, they decided to include only one new song in their set list and ensure the shows go beyond surf tunes, car songs and "Pet Sounds." They're spanning decades in the show-from "Surfin' Safari" to "Sail On, Sailor" to "Kokomo" to the new record-and along the way including such lesser-known tunes as "Don't Back Down," "Forever" and "All This Is That."
On the day of the interview, Jardine was concerned he didn't have "All This Is That" down properly. "That song's got more chord changes than the Bible has verses," he says before heading off to find an acoustic guitar. "Every bar has most the incredible Beach Boy harmonies. It just goes and goes - it's like a mantra. I really want to play that sucker."
A half-hour later, Jardine had an acoustic in his hands and the chords of "All This Is That" in front of him. Wilson was behind the piano, warming up his fingers, and Johnston was busy changing from a dress shirt for a photo shoot into a T-shirt for rehearsal. Love and Marks were autographing a souvenir surfboard with the Beach Boys logo from the late-'60s formation of their Brother Records. They appeared at ease and ready to go.
It's one thing to say, "Let's kick around the idea of what to do for a 50th anniversary." It's quite another to decide to go on a global concert tour. What made you believe this would be viable?
Brian Wilson: The guys are so rehearsed. They've been on the road for 50 years, and let's just say their chops aren't getting any less. We all have had a lot of practice and we know each other very well and we know each other's parameters.
Mike Love: When we first got back together again we covered ourselves. We did "Do It Again," and Brian comes up to me and says, "How can a 70-year-old sound that good?" Well, I've been practicing. [laughs] He was very complimentary.
Wilson: He sounds as young as he did in 1963.
David Marks: You could tell the chemistry was still there. When we started rehearsals we really did pick up where we left off.
Al Jardine: We all had to give up a lot to be on this tour because we all have our own individual bands. I have a new solo album, David has a new solo album and a wonderful book. So everybody had to give up something to receive. It's the legacy that's important.
At what point did the idea of doing an album kick in?
Love: This band has always been about us singing songs Brian writes, so we sat down to hear songs he had.
Wilson: Michael wrote a song called "Daybreak Over the Ocean" and I wrote "Shelter." Joe Thomas [Wilson's chief songwriting collaborator on the album] and I wrote some songs together in 1998.
Did you each bring in songs, or was this strictly a job for Brian?
Bruce Johnston: Brian had scraps of songs and we've just been shoving them together. It's more Brian-heavy than Al or myself. This band is about the songs Brian wrote with different collaborators.
Love: Brian's mainly carrying the lead on our single "That's Why God Made the Radio." We've all got our parts and when you listen to it all coming back . . .
Wilson: It's like heaven.
Love: Yeah, it's like 1965 again.
Wilson: Actually, it's like revisiting an old town you used to live in 20 years ago.
Is there anything that carries over in your songwriting from your Beach Boys work in the '60s and '70s?
Wilson: I tried to make each guy's part mean something. Writing parts for the five guys, when you put it together, it all means something. Each part is important.
How much of the new album will make it into the live sets?
Love: The album doesn't come out until June 5, so maybe by that time we'll incorporate a song. We've got so many recognizable hits, people are showing up saying, "I want to hear 'God Only Knows,' I want to hear 'Wouldn't It Be Nice,' 'California Girls.'" How are you not going to do those songs?
How many songs are you performing each night?
Marks: We've rehearsed at least 50 songs so far. When we did a two-hour show in England a couple years ago we had 50 songs. Actually, the nightly set list will change according the venue, the appropriateness of certain songs. Some are two minutes long and we do [them] exactly like the records.
Is there much negotiating to get the set list together?
Wilson: It's mostly up to Michael. I just want to make sure I get four or five in there.
Such as?
Wilson: "Please Let Me Wonder," "This Old World" and a few others. Just enough.
How do you put the list together?
Love: There's a big master list that we put together by saying, "OK, which ones are going to be best for the amphitheaters we're doing this time?" It's a collective thing - Brian's got some leads, Al's got some leads, I've got some leads; Bruce, too.
When Brian mentions "This Whole World," a wonderful song from the overlooked "Sunflower" album in 1970, it seems like you're willing to go beyond the big hits and the songs Brian is known for. How far afield are you going?
Marks: I am hoping to do "Summertime Blues," the Eddie Cochran cover, in the set, which Carl [Wilson] and I did.
Jardine: I want to do an environmental message, but also Mike wants to do one we wrote, "All This Is That," which is kind of a spiritual song. It's all a matter of testing on audiences.
Marks: Yesterday at rehearsal, "Cottonfields" came off really well, so that has been becoming one of my favorites. It's an old Leadbelly song. "Heroes and Villains," all the car and surf songs are coming off nice.
When most people talk about the legacy of the Beach Boys, the conversation focuses on the early singles, and the albums "Pet Sounds" and "Smile." In your opinion, what other works are important for understanding the Beach Boys' legacy?
Jardine: The main thing is that we always had a positive message. The sound of it is positive, the lyrics are positive.
Marks: I send people to the "Surfin' USA" album. It has a lot of instrumentals and that was the roots, the base of the band. It also shows Brian's arranging ability for vocal harmony. The guitars meet Four Freshmen harmonies - that's what hit people and they fell in love with it. No one had ever heard anything like it. I also love Holland, [the 1973 album that includes "Sail On, Sailor"].
Wilson: That's a hard question to answer. "Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)" has a rock'n'roll thing about it.
Love: What album was "Darlin'" on?
Wilson: "Wild Honey."
Love: "Darlin'" and Carl Wilson doing "I Was Made to Love Her" - oh, my gosh.
Wilson: It kicked ass.
Love: That was a cool album to work on. It had an R&B flavor to it. Brian used a theremin on ["Darlin'"] like he did on "Good Vibrations." They were doing the track at his house in Bel-Air and I went into the kitchen to raid the refrigerator and make some tea. Brian had a health food store back then called the Radiant Radish and I look up and see "wild honey," and the track is pumping and I thought, "I'll make up a song called 'Wild Honey.'" So I made it about a girl and this guy - I was even thinking about Stevie Wonder at the time. What would Stevie Wonder say to his mother about a girl that maybe she didn't want him to get involved with, but he says, "Screw it" - he really digs this chick. That was the premise of the song.
Wilson: It came together [snaps his fingers] just like that.
It feels like everyone is in agreement on where the Beach Boys need to go and how you'll get there. Was there anything in particular that got you all on the same page?
Marks: We picked up right where we left off - the chemistry was there. All successful bands have that: When certain people get together there is one certain fantastic thing.
Jardine: And it's built from there.


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The National Forum for People with Learning Disabilities was set up following the 2001 Valuing People white paper. Until March this year, it was made up of 18 regional representatives (two for each region in England) and two co-chairs. The forum fed in to the Valuing People Now team, which passed on its comments to the Department of Health's National Learning Disability Programme Board, headed up by the care services minister. The aim was to enable people with a learning disability to influence government policy.
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- 1. In a large saucepan, bring 1/2 in. of water to a boil. Add asparagus; cover and boil for 3 minutes. Drain and immediately place asparagus in ice water. Drain and pat dry. In the same pan, combine the sour cream, lemon juice, mustard and salt; heat through.
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The task force does not disclose who suggests topics, so it is not possible to be certain which Enron issues were considered. But it appears that one such issue came in 2000, when the task force addressed the question of what should be done about what appeared to be the application of widely varying approaches by energy traders to determine how much contracts were worth. The task force refused to specify how valuations should be made, leaving companies free to use methods they deemed best.
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The accounting for energy services is not the only area in which Enron engaged in accounting that used rules in surprising ways.
In one transaction involving a joint venture with Blockbuster, Enron reported large profits even though the venture never attracted more than a few customers.
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In the Enron-Blockbuster deal, the two companies set up a pilot project, streaming videos to a few dozen apartments in Portland, Ore., from servers set up in the basement of the building. With that tiny beginning, Enron opened up a partnership, called Braveheart, which raised more than $115 million from a bank in exchange for a promise of most of the earnings from the Blockbuster deal for years.
Enron asserted that there was a market in broadband, and that its transaction amounted to one involving the transfer of financial assets. That meant it could report the transaction on a mark-to-market basis, similar to the way it accounted for the energy trades. It applied its undisclosed model to calculate how much revenue it could report from the transaction, and reported more than $110 million. Former executives say accountants at Arthur Andersen approved the accounting.
"Nobody in the division could comprehend how they got Andersen to sign off on that," one former senior executive in the broadband division said. "It just didn't make any sense. When we heard what they did, everybody's mouths just hung open. We weren't doing business on any scale even close to those numbers."
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the bank that put up the money had a guarantee from Enron that it would not lose money. From the bank's point of view, that may have made the transaction look like a loan, but Enron says the accounting came under an F.A.S.B. rule covering the securitization of assets. Under that rule, accountants say, Enron could still treat the transaction as a sale, while reducing the profit to reflect the value of its guarantee.
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In [Don4], we described a manipulation task for cooperating mobile robots that can push large, heavy objects. There, we asked whether explicit local and global communication between the agents can be removed from a family of pushing protocols. In this paper, we answer in the affirmative. We do so by using the general methods of [Don4] analyzing information invariants. We discuss several measures for the information complexity of the task of pushing with cooperating mobile robots, and we present a methodology for creating new manipulation strategies out of existing ones. We develop and analyze synchronous and asynchronous manipulation protocols for a small team of cooperating mobile robots that can push large boxes. The protocols we describe have been implemented in several forms on the Cornell mobile robots in our laboratory.
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Anyone remember this?
Yep. My kids, one hose, and a husband who just giggled about the whole thing.
And now I have him:
Who has grown into this…
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Yes, I know. I have all but dropped off the face of the planet. This whole working full-time gig has really messed up my online social life. My job? I love it, except I spend 37.5 hours a week there, slaving away in my basement office. I feel like a mole, emerging at lunch time and after work, squinting against the sunshine.
In the past two months, Sean and I had our 'real' wedding, he went to mediation with Dirt and found out she can't remain sober, school ended for the summer, and the Monster puppy is now 75lbs.
Life has pretty much carried on as usual, with the routine letters from Dirt's lawyer claiming that she can no longer pay her lawyer, and that the case must be dismissed for financial reasons, and because Dirt actually believes there has been no change of circumstances. I think she lives in another planet.
We met with our lawyer yesterday, and the trial date is set for August 5th. They think we have a good shot at reducing her visitation. I know, I know, I scoffed too at the thought of "good shot". But the reality is that Dirt is their mother, and we live in a Mommy state. We aren't asking for that much, and the schedule we want is actually the standard visitation schedule for children under the primary care custody umbrella– every other weekend, no school overnights, and one afternoon every week. I don't think they should be over there that much, but any reduction would be better than the hell we are facing every week.
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Some days, it's all worth it. Every single moment of pure hell melts away.
I found a piece of Love's homework in her bag last night. It was a worksheet entitled, "Winning the respect of someone you admire." She had already completed it.
She had to name someone that she admires, and why. In the next section, her job was to write how she thinks that special someone views her.
"I respect Blue, aka stepmom. She is nice and caring and takes really good care of me. She makes sure my clothes fit. She cooks really good food. She makes sure I take showers and baths."
She could have picked anyone that she admires. And that wonderful child chose me.
And how does Love want me to view her?
"I hope she thinks I'm smart and caring and nice and brave. That I follow the rules and don't get into trouble."
I cried when I found it, and had to go rest my head on Sean shoulder. Sean said that it speaks volumes about the whole situation, and who she thinks takes care of her.
"Makes it all worth it, doesn't it, babe?
Yes. Yes, it does.
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