[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #488: Reduce space taken by Formaline tarballs

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#488: Reduce space taken by Formaline tarballs
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  Reporter:  hinder       |       Owner:  hinder   
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted 
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:           
 Component:  Cactus       |     Version:           
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  Formaline
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Changes (by hinder):

  * owner:  => hinder
  * status:  review => accepted


Comment:

 I can do so (when I get back from travelling in three weeks), but I am
 unhappy about two aspects of the solution:

 1. SimFactory is learning about a detail of Formaline, as well as
 modifying existing restarts, when I think this job could easily be done by
 Formaline as it went along.  If Formaline knew where to look for existing
 tarballs (e.g. by having a global directory, or a path pattern in which to
 search), then it could do the hard-linking at the time the tarball is
 created.

 2. This solution doesn't address the problem with benchmarks, which
 typically only have one restart per simulation, and which usually have
 many simulations for each source tree.  Using a common cache directory
 would solve this problem (either in simfactory, or if 1 is implemented, in
 formaline).

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