Re: [Testbed-admins] Getting user files into Experiments

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

ops is supposed to be the "home base" where people login and keep their
stuff.  No one other than admins should login to boss.

Most people use "scp" or "rsync" to get things into and out of ops.
At least in our case, ops has a lot of disk space and we provide backup
to tape for it, so people leave their files there rather than move them
in and out.

Obviously, if you have really large data sets that you need to copy in
and experiment with and then move the results elsewhere, this is a PITA.
We don't currently provide any builtin mechanisms to help here.

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 04:26:47PM -0500, Barry Trent wrote:
> I've gotten our emulab back on its feet and have people interested in 
> using it (good deal!), but something puzzles me. I know that, as stated 
> in the docs:
> 
> "Each project has its own directory, rooted at /proj, which is available 
> via NFS to all of the nodes in experiments running in that project."
> 
> This makes sense for the nodes INSIDE emulab, but how are users 
> generally supposed to get files from OUTSIDE emulab into the /proj and 
> /users directories to begin with? They can't login directly to boss, 
> since by default they don't appear to have a human-usable login shell 
> (/etc/passwd shows /usr/testbed/sbin/paperbag as their login shell.)
> 
> Are the users supposed to access these mounts via NFS access directly to 
> ops?
> 
> Am I missing something here?
> 
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