[Swift-devel] lots of very small files vs gridftp

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> This reminds me of clustering of jobs we did initially with swift
> versus Falkon.

yes. its half a cut-and-paste job of that code.

> Could the untar job be done with fork straight through gram?

yes. though my feeling at the moment when there is something like coasters 
around with spare nodes is that this wouldn't change much. In the case of 
non-coaster runs using something like gram4 that can still take a 
reasonable number of jobs, getting the untar pushed ahead of queued 'work' 
jobs is probably good.

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