[Swift-devel] Re: remote file system

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:45 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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.

I'd say this is exactly why the scheduler keeps tabs on sites.

I also think, given that I've seen no indication in the past 5 years
that the minimum reliability of sites has increased significantly, that
we should make sure Swift works despite the occasional broken site.

> 
> Separately, from an OSG operations perspective, someone (I guess me) could 
> contact the site admin and see what is going on.
>