On 20 April 2011 15:14, Christopher J.Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> John Bland wrote:
>> On 20/04/2011 14:54, Christopher J.Walker wrote:
>>> I asked Steve about using spacetokens. He wanted to know why sites
>>> couldn't set the default spacetoken to be scratchdisk.
>>
>> A site can set a default space token for a VO? On DPM?
>>
>
> There are two questions here.
>
> 1) Can you do it with DPM.
>
Not as far as I'm aware. (I know you can in dCache.) I'm looking into
this a bit more.
> 2) If you can't, then why can't you, isn't that what a user expects?
>
I don't know, is it? If a VO has N spacetokens, how does the site know
what the default spacetoken expected by all the users is?
> I'm sure we've been here before, and I suspect Steven Burke gave a good
> answer but we ought to document it somewhere on the wiki (or pointers to
> it somewhere on the wiki). I'm too busy to do more at the moment.
I note that using a spacetoken explicitly is as easy as adding "-S
ATLASSCRATCHDISK" to the commands in Steve's script.
Sam
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> Chris
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