Flavia Donno wrote:
> Well ...
>
> Steve Traylen wrote:
>
>> I can see there possibly are reasons for wanting GridFTP on the CE but
>> this is not one. Suppose the GridFTP server is down, how do you turn it
>> off.
>>
>>
>>
> If the gridFTP server is not up, then we assume that the site is not
> working properly and we exclude it from production.
> Sometime you want to publish tags that are not really related to the
> experiment software installed but they advertize
> more a propriety of that site for your experiment.
> I might agree that we should probably have a service for it. But
> probably gridftp is good enough.
BTW: if the published tags are all held on the CE, isn't it possible for
the ESM's to use globus-job-run/jobmanager-fork to the CE to update
them, without getting stuck in a queue?
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