Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> The reason for the brokerinfo file is that in general you don't know
> which site a job will land on in advance - but if you use -r you clearly
> do! The information is just what you can get anyway from the information
> system and catalogue queries. I don't think it would make a lot of sense
> for a site to do that, it would be a significant amount of work for
> something which should be a rare case. If you want to force a job to a
> site but have the brokerinfo you can always do it with a requirement,
> e.g. on the ceid.
Which is exactly what we ended up doing for LHCb because there were
sites we knew just didn't run our jobs properly, so we used the ceid to
constrain it to those we knew worked.
I see your point about the info otherwise being available.
Cheers,
Ian
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