[Go-essp-tech] DRS hierarchy on disk

[Sébastien Denvil]

stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk a écrit :
> 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.
>  
> 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.


I'm not sure this is a CMOR2's built-in function. You can configure
CMOR2 to write files following DRS, but CMOR2 won't check you did it
good. But I will be happy to have clear view on that from Charles.

Sébastien

> Given this, why wouldn't we want to insist all datasets are stored on
> disk in the DRS hierarchy?
>  
> Thanks,
> Stephen.
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