[gpfsug-discuss] Question about Policies

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 30/12/2019 23:40, Marc A Kaplan wrote:
> As I said :"MAY be ill-advised".
> 
> If you have a good reason to use "mv" then certainly, use it!
> 
> But there are plenty of good naming conventions for the scenario you 
> give...
> Like, start a new directory of results every day, week or month...
> 
> 
> /fs/experiments/y2019/m12/d30/fileX.ZZZ ...
> 
> OF course, if you want or need to mv, or cp and/or rm the metadata out 
> of the filesystem, then eventually you do so!
> 

Possibly, but often (in fact sensibly) the results are saved in the 
first instance to the local machine because any network issue and boom 
your results are gone as doing the analysis destroys the sample. That in 
life sciences can easily mean several days and $1000.

The results are then uploaded automatically to the file server. That 
gets a whole bunch more complicated. Honest you simply don't want to go 
there getting it to be done different. It would be less painful to have 
a tooth extracted without anesthetic.


JAB.

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