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On 21 March 2011 14:56, J Nebrensky <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> ...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... > You can mitigate this to some extent by telling us what times are important for say, MICE, so we know. (I agree that the tendency for schedules for this kind of thing to be driven by the LHC VOs can be particularly problematic for any other VOs who want to do stuff, but if we get told what you need, we can try to take it into account.) Sam > Thanks > > Henry > > -- > Dr. Henry Nebrensky [log in to unmask] > http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eesrjjn > "The opossum is a very sophisticated animal. > It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 p.m." >