Network drive issues
So here's the problem I've been having with RunPod (and that may lead to me giving up on it):
I have a network drive and use it to install pods. I use ComfyUI, so I usually use a pre-install template to get started, then add nodesets and models according to the workflow. So far so good.
The problem is that when I stop the pod to preserve the downloaded models, LoRAs, nodes, etc. I've installed, the data is preserved on the network drive. But when I next come to start up the pod again, the drive no longer has access to a GPU on that server and no RTX 4090s (for example) are available. Sometimes no GPUs are available at all on the server hosting my network drive.
So I have to deploy a pod from a different server, and although the template gets installed, all of the models I'd previously downloaded don't get ported over to the new server, so for any workflow beyond just the ComfyUI install itself, I have to start all over again. This is time-consuming but I've had to do it over and over again. As a result, I've more or less given up on using complicated workflows that require many models and nodes to be installed.
I would say that at least 80% of my time on RunPod is spent simply reinstalling models from previous workflows. Often this is so time-consuming that I don't even manage to generate anything at all. It's tedious and frutrating.
What am I doing wrong?
I have a network drive and use it to install pods. I use ComfyUI, so I usually use a pre-install template to get started, then add nodesets and models according to the workflow. So far so good.
The problem is that when I stop the pod to preserve the downloaded models, LoRAs, nodes, etc. I've installed, the data is preserved on the network drive. But when I next come to start up the pod again, the drive no longer has access to a GPU on that server and no RTX 4090s (for example) are available. Sometimes no GPUs are available at all on the server hosting my network drive.
So I have to deploy a pod from a different server, and although the template gets installed, all of the models I'd previously downloaded don't get ported over to the new server, so for any workflow beyond just the ComfyUI install itself, I have to start all over again. This is time-consuming but I've had to do it over and over again. As a result, I've more or less given up on using complicated workflows that require many models and nodes to be installed.
I would say that at least 80% of my time on RunPod is spent simply reinstalling models from previous workflows. Often this is so time-consuming that I don't even manage to generate anything at all. It's tedious and frutrating.
What am I doing wrong?
