Hi Henry,
as a sys admin it is not important but users might care to have different
type of data on different type of storage. i.e. "my ntuples on raid5,
experiment data on disk".
>> SE_ARCH="multidisk"
>> So we can expect that this is correct.
how do you define resilient dcache multidisk or disk?
cheers
alessandra
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Henry Nebrensky wrote:
> Obviously I wasn't there; sorry if this retreads long discussion:
>
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Owen Synge wrote:
>
>> Minutes of storage phone conference 15 Feb 2006
> ...
>> 4. AOB
>> Should YAIM field SE_ARCH be populated with "multidisk" for Raid systems?
>> We suspect this is the case. the options are
>> "disk, tape, multidisk, other"
>> and the default is
>
> Where does this value end up being used - it looks like something for the
> information system?
>
> [As an end user, the technology underlying a single filesystems isn't
> particularly relevant; OTOH if the SE is a front-end to several separate
> disk volumes/partitions, then "total free space" won't be the same as
> "biggest file that can be uploaded" which is kinda important!]
>
> Thanks
>
> Henry
>
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