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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:14 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> Here comes another question, is there any place that I could set to 
> disable swift's waiting for data feature?

Do you mean disable the stage-outs?

> Or is there any way for me to cheat swift that the data is already 
> there? thanks.
> 
> zhao
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >