Ticket 21276

Summary:	Using /tmp as BasePath in job_container/tmpfs
Product:	Slurm	Reporter:	Kamykowski.Michael
Component:	Build System and Packaging	Assignee:	Jacob Jenson <jacob>
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Description Kamykowski.Michael 2024-10-25 10:01:05 MDT

Hello, 

The Slurm documentation says the following:
"NOTE: The BasePath parameter cannot be set to any of the paths specified by Dirs. Using these directories will cause conflicts when trying to mount and unmount the private directories for the job."

From testing, this seems to be correct. For example, if Dirs=/tmp in my job_container.conf and BasePath is set to /tmp or a subdirectory of /tmp, then I encounter errors. However, could someone please explain exactly where in the code that this conflict is happening? I have looked in the Slurm git repository and have not been able to find this conflict.

Thanks, 
Mike