Hi Tim,
>Does xrootd need the accurate file size?
Not at all. At best a ball-park figure will do. Even a large enough constant
will do as well.
> The mapping onto other "ls -l" fields (eg. file mode) is also rudimentary,
> and directories probably aren't supported at all.
Anything will do for these fields, as long as it's syntactically valid and
semantically consistent.
> This is presumably a problem for any MSS without a full metadata
catalogue.
Yes, but we really don't care about what the real values are most of the
time.
Andy
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