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Site and Endpoints |
What is the site name? |
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Which endpoint URLs do your archival systems expose? |
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How is tape storage selected for a write (choice of endpoint, specification of a spacetoken, namespace prefix). |
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Queue |
What limits should clients respect? |
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---> Max number of outstanding requests |
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---> Min/Max requests submitted at one time |
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---> Min/Max bulk request size? |
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Should clients back off under certain circumstances? |
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---> How is this signalled to client? |
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---> For which operations? |
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Is it advantageous to group requests by a particular criterion (e.g. tape family, date)? |
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---> What criterion? |
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Prioritisation |
Can you handle priority requests? |
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---> How is this requested? |
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Protocol support |
Are there any unsupported or partially supported operations (e.g. pinning) ? |
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Timeouts |
What timeouts do you recommend? |
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Do you have hardcoded or default timeouts? |
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Operations and metrics |
Can you provide total sum of data stored by VO in the archive to 100TB accuracy? |
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Can you provide space occupied on tapes by VO (includes deleted data, but not yet reclaimed space) to 100TB accuracy? |
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How do you allocate free tape space to VOs? |
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What is the frequency with which you run repack operations to reclaim space on tapes after data deletion? |
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Recommendations for clients |
Recommendation 1 |
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---> Information required by users to follow advice |
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Recommendation 2 |
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