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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 21:57 +0000, 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.

We would have to state the extent to which a Globus deployment on a site
needs to be functional, which doesn't seem like a trivial thing.

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