[Swift-user] Success with fork, but exception in getFile with condor

[Anand Padmanabhan]

Ben Clifford wrote:
>> In OSG it is upto the sites to decide what they want to support, this is not
>> one of the mandatory requirement that is placed on the site. A large number of
>> sites do support it (Jing is running successfully on around 15 sites now),
>> though there are few that do not support it.
>>
>> Another thing you need to be aware that there is no requirement to have a
>> shared file system in OSG, though again many sites do provide a DATA
>> directory.
> 
> probably we (swift) should clarify that those are requirements that we 
> make on sites and that attempting to run on sites that don't support that 
> won't work. that way we get to solve the problem by writing a paragraph in 
> the user manual rather than fixing anything.
> 
Yes, I would agree and OSG also needs a better way of publishing which 
sites make non standard assumption.

Thanks,
Anand