sPHENIX HCal discussion

[Stefan Bathe <stefan.bathe AT baruch.cuny.edu>]

Thanks, Martin!  Much appreciated!
- Stefan
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> On Aug 13, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Martin Purschke <purschke AT bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> HCalers,
> 
> Stefan had called me to ask if we could find more disk space for the 912
> DAQ machine, as space was getting tight. There is no easy way to put
> more disk into the actual "sphenixdaq" machine, it's old and all. I put
> an additional disk in the gateway machine, and NFS-mounted it on the DAQ
> machine as /data (same name on the gateway).
> 
> Sorry that I inadvertently kicked Daniel off; I had checked that no one
> was logged in but he must have sneaked past while I was getting there.
> 
> You have now
> 
>> [phnxsa@sphenixdaq ~]$ mount
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> hcal912gw.phy.bnl.local:/data on /data type nfs
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.100.99)
>> 
> 
> I made directories
> 
>> [phnxsa@sphenixdaq ~]$ ls /data/phnxsa/912/
>> cosmics  junk  test
>> 
> and modified the the setup script /homesa/phnxsa/hcal912/bin/setup_912.sh
> 
> to read
> 
> 
>> # activate this for new disk DEST=/data/phnxsa//912
>> DEST=/scratch/data/912
>> 
>> # and the run types
>> rcdaq_client daq_define_runtype junk     $DEST/junk/junk_%08d-%04d.prdf
>> rcdaq_client daq_define_runtype test     $DEST/test/test_%08d-%04d.prdf
>> rcdaq_client daq_define_runtype cosmics 
>> $DEST/cosmics/cosmics_%08d-%04d.prdf
> 
> so right now it is still all as it used to be.
> 
> Comment the currently active "DEST=" line, and un-comment the other one,
> reload, and you'll write to the new disk.
> 
> I did set the filerule manually and wrote a junk file to the new place.
> All good.
> 
> BTW, just to state the obvious, if you transfer data to the RCF or so,
> please do from the gateway for more efficiency, as that's where the data
> are physically hosted now. You have 8 TB.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
>     Martin
> 
> 
> 
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