[Swift-devel] is restart log required

[Mihael Hategan]

The presence of a file says nothing about the integrity of that file. It
could be a file that was only partially transferred. 

Mihael

On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 21:59 -0500, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was doing some resume tests with trunk on ALCF and noticed the new
> restart log contains a list of outputs produced by a run. I was wondering
> if this log is needed at all.
> 
> In a scenario where user needs to resume a run, the status of the past run
> could be checked by scanning the output locations specified in the source.
> This will save the effort of maintaining a file and user will not have to
> point to the restart log.
> 
> Just an observation, may be there is more to it than appears at first.
> 
> --Ketan
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