parallel netcdf on BG, colons in filenames?

[John Michalakes]

Thanks all for the replies. We've run into problems with colons in WRF file names before on Windows file systems and trying to use
scp to move WRF data around the net.  The new information that it causes problems with ROMIO adds another argument for just getting
rid of these in WRF file names altogether, which we'll probably do at some point. Thanks again,

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Ross [mailto:rross at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:56 AM
> To: John Michalakes; parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: parallel netcdf on BG, colons in filenames?
>
>
> This is something that we will probably fix, now that it has been
> pointed out. It may take some time for the fix to percolate into vendor
> releases.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
> Robert Latham wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:14:12AM -0700, John Michalakes wrote:
> >> The only difference is colons characters in the file name.  Any
> >> ideas? (aside from the obvious, don't put colons in file names :-)
> >
> > Hi John
> > You aren't the first one to run into this one.  This is not *exactly*
> > a pnetcdf issue, but rather a way that pnetcd interacts with the
> > underlying MPI-IO implementation.  In this particular case, you are
> > using a ROMIO-based implementation, which looks for the ':' character.
> >
> > If you really need to use the : character in your file name, prefix
> > the name with 'ufs:', 'pvfs2:', or 'nfs:', depending on the file
> > sytem.
> >
> > The README for parallel-netcdf has more information.
> >
> > Hope that makese sense.  Let me know if you want even more
> > information.
> > ==rob
> >
>