2024-01-11 Meeting Notes
- James Walder
Date
Jan 11, 2024
Participants
@Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC)
@Alexander Rogovskiy
@Thomas Byrne
Lancs: Steven, Gerard, Matt
Glasgow: Sam
Apologies:
CC:
Goals
List of Epics
New tickets
Consider new functionality / items
Detailed discussion of important topics
Site report activity
Discussion topics
Current status of Echo Gateways / WNs testing
Recent sandbox’s for review / deployments:
Item | Presenter | Notes |
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Operational Issues | @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) |
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Gateways and WNs: | @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) | stable status currently
To resist installing 5.6.4; before the break, one sets of sets (TPC transfers) was failing against another site. To repeat the tests and see |
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bugfix for calculating striper objects in direct reads |
| https://github.com/stfc/xrootd-ceph/pull/50
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ECHO File transfer / throughput studies | @Katy Ellis | Tests of per-file transfer writes into Echo. 
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Checksums fixes | @Alexander Rogovskiy | Status and plans for improving Checksumming work … https://github.com/alex-rg/xrd_ckslib/tree/main (Sandbox prepare and applied to GW8) |
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Prefetch studies and WN changes | @Alexander Rogovskiy |
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Deletion studies through RDR | @Ian Johnson |
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Tokens testing | @Thomas, Jyothish (STFC,RAL,SC) @Katy Ellis | https://stfc.atlassian.net/browse/XRD-63 avoid duplicating basepath by Jo-stfc · Pull Request #2151 · xrootd/xrootd |
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Understanding CMSD Loadbalancing | @Thomas Byrne |
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SKA Gateway box | @James Walder |
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Architectural review ‘hackathon’ | All | Plan the process for the Architectural planning of XRootD across the External Gateways and WNs |
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2024 Planning |
| JW to prepare a summary of the plans for 2024 |
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on GGUS:
Site reports
Lancaster -
Glasgow -
Action items
@James Walder to schedule a ‘hackathon’ within a F2F to have a session on architectural planning.
@James Walder to prepare an outline of the expected roadmap for XRootD developments in 2024.