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<DIV><SPAN class=153364111-19112009><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the telco this
Tuesday I was slightly surprised when someone (I think Bob) asserted
data is not likely to follow the DRS hierarchy on disk. Although we know
the disk layout can be mapped to DRS URLs in the web server I thought our
default position was that we would lay out the data in the DRS hierarchy because
it is the simplest solution.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=153364111-19112009><FONT face=Arial size=2>This issue came up
in a meeting with UKMO yesterday where they thought there was a strong reason
for using the DRS on disk so that fallback positions like ftp follow a
consistent structure. I also learnt that CMOR2 will output to the DRS
hierarchy automatically.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=153364111-19112009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Given this, why
wouldn't we want to insist all datasets are stored on disk in the DRS
hierarchy?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=153364111-19112009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=153364111-19112009><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Stephen.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>---</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen Pascoe +44 (0)1235
445980</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>British Atmospheric Data
Centre</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory</FONT></DIV>
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