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On 04/13/2011 03:07 AM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Hi Adrian, Thanks a lot for answer! Adrian > Doesn't seem to be a bug but a misunderstanding. I don't know what > exists does but whatever it does it probably asks xrootd to give it > files that are "only online" > > root://rd.spacescience.ro:1094//>existfile > d4ee65fa-6166-11e0-b0a5-001cc4624d66 > Error 3011: No servers are available to immediately read the file. > > The above makes no claims whether the file exists or not just that it > might exist but is not immediately available because it may be offline. > > The file exists. > > root://rd.spacescience.ro:1094//>isfileonline > d4ee65fa-6166-11e0-b0a5-001cc4624d66 > root://rd.spacescience.ro:1094//> > > Again, I don't know what isfileonline does; but the file may now be > online. Only the server logs could tell us for sure. > > so .. is there a problem with locating a file? > > Doesn't seem to be. I'd say it's just the way these tools were written > that don't provide enough information to determine what the real state > of the file is. > > xrootd version 20100510-1509_dbg (ALICE install) > > I think the ALICE support team could provide more information about this. > > Andy >