> ...but from the perspective of
> a small VO I'm certainly concerned about the prospect of a discontinuity
> of the storage.
>
> In principle it should be possible for us to wipe and then repopulate an
> ex-DPM SE from Castor tape, but - including associated data verification
> and catalogue consistency checks - that's an activity that will eat up
> more manpower than we may have available.
Hi,
An extra wrinkle is of course that any such changes are are likely to be
made on schedules driven by the large VOs - i.e. LHC - and thus may happen
at times that are spectacularly unhelpful for the rest of us...
Thanks
Henry
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