Jeff's Question:
> Question: Why is it that on any machine other than the one I started the
> process on, the file size is 0 still and the modification time
> is the time when I started ``jo'', BUT the file size and
> file modification are being updated properly as ``jo'' runs
> on the machine I started ``jo'' from?
>
> You do not the that data written into jo.out on the other machines
> because the file has not been closed. AFS clients do not store
> data to the server until the file is closed.
>
> -Larry
So that means if the network connection goes out for a moment on a
really long running job that is accumulating output, the person will
lose all that has been accumulated? I suspected that's what was
happening to one of my students who was running 5 day jobs earlier
this school year, but wasn't certain. Is there a way around this
(besides writing closes in to the program, or using space in /tmp)?
thanks
ka
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