<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr">Hello there,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr">We want to create a cluster where each node has a couple of tele-bytes disk space for its own. The space in a node is used to store large data sets that will be processed by this particular node. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr">I understand that we can create EBS volumes and then starcluster can mount them as network shared disks. So from there, I can create a symbolic link for each node to use the network disks, sth like</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr">ln -s /data/volumn0001 /localdisk</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr">This should work, but I am wondering if there is a cleaner solution. Also, I need the space is accessible right after the cluster is up or rebooted, because some init.d jobs will try to read/write the data in the disks.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418769298630_606095" dir="ltr">Thanks!</div></div></body></html>