Water utility storage tests show capacity and paths that look like local disk only, not the shared training export. What should operators conclude?
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Short Explanation
If storage tests look like lonely local disk instead of the big water-utility export, you probably mounted the wrong thing—fix the path before you celebrate.
Full Explanation
When water-utility storage tests report capacity and paths that look like local disk only—not the shared training export—operators should conclude a mis-mounted export is likely and correct storage configuration before accepting the path. Domain 4 storage testing is also a configuration detector: wrong mount targets, bind mounts to node-local scratch, or stale fstab entries produce “success” metrics against the wrong filesystem. Treating local-disk-like results as proof the fabric is perfect misreads the signal; you may never have left the GPU node’s local disk. Calling capacity quirks cosmetic and safe to ignore risks training against insufficient or non-shared storage that will not hold municipal datasets. Assuming the shared export is healthy because nvidia-smi still lists GPUs confuses accelerator enumeration with filesystem correctness. Exam caveat: confirm mount source, export path, capacity, and filesystem type/UUID against the design—local NVMe can be intentionally used for scratch, but acceptance for the shared training tier must test that tier explicitly. Operational check: for the water utility, compare storage-test capacity and path output to the documented shared export, fix automount/NFS/parallel-filesystem configuration if it points local, re-run tests from GPU nodes against the corrected export, and accept only when identity and performance match the training filesystem design.