[Swift-user] Questions about configuration files

[Ben Clifford]

On Aug 1, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Lorenzo Pesce wrote:

> Hi to all --
> Ketan kindly provided us with a nice training and I was trying to implement something useful on Beagle. 
> I have two probably not too smart questions about the configuration variables.
> 
> status.mode=provider
> 
> In the case of a machine with a shared filesystem, whether this is files or provider should make no difference, right?

The files mode is slower but works on more sites. If provider works for you, then use provider. In some cases, the execution provider couldn't correctly indicate whether a job worked or not, which is why the files mode exists.

Ben