[Swift-devel] Re: remote file system

[lixi at uchicago.edu]

Thanks for your information.

It seems that I should filter out these two weird sites
(UCSDT2 and UCSDT2-B) for experiments.

Xi

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:45:56 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>  
>Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Re: remote file system  
>To: Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov>
>Cc: lixi at uchicago.edu, "swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu" <swift-
devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
>
>actually specifically the sites that Xi has been using look 
fairly flakey 
>- they often won't accept gridftp connections (as in, the 
site that just 
>worked with fork for me now doesn't work at all).
>
>From the perspective of Xi's work, I think that means that 
this site 
>should be regarded as "broken" even when it does happen to 
accept gridftp 
>transfers and job submissions.
>
>Perhaps that unable to link input file error, when used on 
a 
>known-to-be-good workflow, should always be treated for now 
(in Xi's work) 
>as an indication that the site is not broken.
>
>Separately, from an OSG operations perspective, someone (I 
guess me) could 
>contact the site admin and see what is going on.
>
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