Hi Charlie,

Atlas already have many volumes. We don't have to have this meeting next 
week. We can wait until you are back to SLAC. You and Stephen are the 
two people (known to SCCS) that have a deep knowledge of potential issues.

regards,

Wei Yang  |  [log in to unmask]  |  650-926-3338(O)


Young, Charles C. wrote:
> Hi Wei,
> 
> This is a good idea to start out living cleanly. As you have no doubt
> noticed, the usual time does not work really well for me, especially
> when I am at CERN. I am here till 5/5, back at SLAC for two weeks, and
> then back to CERN for 3 weeks. Cheers.
> 
> 					Charlie
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
>> Behalf Of Wei Yang
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:13 PM
>> To: atlas-sccs-planning-l; Zachary Marshall; David W. Miller; 
>> Dart, Renata
>> Subject: Atlas AFS volume layout
>>
>> At yesterday's meeting, Len Moss had some important 
>> suggestions about AFS volume layout for ATLAS group space. It 
>> will effect the performance in the future. Len mentioned that 
>> Babar had a painful experience of re-organize their AFS 
>> layout at a later time. I hope it is not too late for ATLAS.
>>
>> I would like to propose a brief meeting, maybe in the 
>> first/last 20-30 minutes during one of our regular ATLAS-SCCS 
>> meetings, to discuss what is the best practice to organize 
>> ATLAS group volumes. Here is a short list of things I can think of:
>>
>> 1) Babar's experience (in AFS layout) to prevent hard hitting 
>> of AFS servers when hundreds of jobs start at the same time
>>
>> 2) What is the current ATLAS Atlas volume layout
>>
>> Len and Renata will attend this discussion. I hope that 
>> either Charlie or Stephen will present. And since Zach is 
>> installing ATLAS releases, maybe Zach is interested?
>>
>> Our regular ATLAS-SCCS meeting is Wednesday 9-10am PDT. 
>> People can dial in as well.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think and we can decide the date.
>>
>> P.S. There is also a AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 
>> in May 7-11 at SLAC. It is mostly for administrators but it 
>> does include tutorial sessions at the beginning.
>>
>> http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw07
>>
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