I think you'll find that is just one of the use cases.
Duncan
On 19 Feb 2013, at 17:00, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
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>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
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>> Of course, but copying data into a WN from another SE is what happens with
>> federated xrootd access to data. It's what gets tested here
> <snip>
>> So if Steve reverses the direction of his tests they suddenly become
>> relevant again.
>>
> Well, sort-of. AIUI the motivation for FAX is primarily to cope
> with the situation that a small number of files in a dataset is
> unavailable from the local SE at a site running a job - it's
> like a space saver spare wheel; it doesn't have to work well,
> just make the difference between working at all and total failure.
>
> Ewan
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