[Swift-devel] Re: remote file system

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:50 -0500, lixi at uchicago.edu wrote:
> Thanks for your information.
> 
> It seems that I should filter out these two weird sites
> (UCSDT2 and UCSDT2-B) for experiments.

Depends on what you want to achieve.

I'd say swift should work in any at-least-one-good-site scenarios.

> 
> 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.
> >
> >--