Posted by John Frear on October 04, 2000 at 01:31:20:
In Reply to: Re: Jenesis slave code posted by William Hsu (Director) on October 04, 2000 at 01:29:52:
> Yihua,
>
> I recommend using /cis/salina/scratch (best) and /cis/mira/research
> (preferred alternative) instead of your home directory. There should
> be no quota on either. You can always symbolically link to these from
> your home dir.
[...]
Another factor seems to be that when people uncompress and extract files,
they do not do it in a very good manner. Given a .tar.gz most people will
do ungzip file.tar.gz, and then 'tar xf file.tar', and I think this is
very wasteful of system resources - disk space, i/o performance during the
operations, and fragmentation. People ought to use pipes so that an
intermediate tar file is never written to disk and the whole operation
goes a lot quicker. I think the .tar files are a big waster in some of
the home directories on kdd machines.
- John Of course, I'm a pessimist. Then when everything works out, I'm pleasantly surprised.
(Slightly maligned from original source)