... that sounds promising, Lydia. Mind you some experiments have (had?)
meaningful zero length files as the presence of the file and/or the
filename had some magical meaning to the experiment.

Cheers
-j

On 16/11/2015 17:12, Lydia Heck wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I have looked at this again and I am now archiving codes and .svn
> directories by tar'ing and gzip'ing them first.
>
> It needs more preparation, but I have increased the i/o performance
> for my archives by a factor of 4-10 at least.
>
> I will also weed out the zero length files, there is no need to
> archive them, as they are zero length and the users know. The
> programme creates them, but as the physics is not present there are no
> data recorded in them.
>
> I need to refine my actions and combine scripts, but I am getting
> there :-) ..
>
> Lydia
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Brian Davies wrote:
>
>>
>> Some concern/interest has been raised that we are archiving files
>> such as:
>>
>>  
>>
>> Srm://srm-dirac.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/castor/ads.rl.ac.uk/prod/vo.dirac.ac.uk/DiRAC/tape/durham.ac.uk/cosma5/data/Eagle/mfTestRuns/CodeDev/Enrichment/new_tests/t
>>
>> est_randomno/orig/test0/P-Gadget3/CoolingTablesWSS08_NCC/.svn/text-base/WSS08_z=1.00_nH=-1_Z=-3.0.txt.svn-base
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is this to be expected?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>  
>>
>>
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