I can add another shared directory that points to a scratch area in the 
project's directory.

Would that work for you?

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From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marius 
Millea
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] is there a way to persist files on the host

(sorry if this screws up the threading, I can't figure out how to reply to a 
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I see, that makes a lot of sense, thanks. I suppose a followup problem is that 
this is a VBox app, which AFAIK only gets access to the mounted shared/ folder. 
Is there any way around this?

Marius


The easiest way is to not tell BOINC about the file -
> just create it in the project directory, and look for it there in 
> subsequent jobs.
>
> The app can get the project dir from the APP_INIT_DATA:
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/StatusApi
>
> -- David
>
>
> On 25-Jun-2015 2:10 AM, Marius Millea wrote:
> > Suppose the result of a computation yields a large file which I 
> > would
> like
> >
> > 1) to remain on host
> > 2) to be used in subsequent computations
> > 3) to not be uploaded
> >
> > I think I know how to do 1), if I have the file in the output 
> > template I can add the <copy_file> flag. Is there actually any way 
> > to do 2 or 3 though?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marius
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