[Swift-devel] How does swift know if a task is successful

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:07 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> Hi, All
> 
> I have a question on how swift knows if a task is successful.
> In my case, I am using a status notification instead of a status file.
> 
> So my question is is this status notification the only thing swift is
> waiting for, or is swift also waiting for the output data to appear to
> say that a job is successful?

Once the job is done, swift will attempt to stage out all the files that
it expects the job to have produced.

Should one of those files not be there, there will be failures.