[Swift-devel] Re: swift-falkon problem

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:

> I'm cautiously leaning a bit more to the NFS-race theory. I would like to test
> with scp data transfer.  Am also trying to get gridftp compiled there with
> help from Raj.  Build is failing with gpt problems, I think I need Ben or
> Charles on this.

If an underlying NFS race is the problem, using scp or gridftp won't cure 
that - it may, by virtue of adding latency, make the problem disppear 
most/all of the time, but that would be by virtue of slowing down access, 
not any actual fixing of the problem.

If you're deliberately introducing artificial delays eg by doing the 
above, there are probably simpler ways (such as hacking a delay into the 
wrapper script after doing the touch but before exiting)

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