[Halld-online] Cleanup of gluon directories

[David Lawrence]

Hi Alex,

  You’re right, this week is very busy with the collaboration meeting and all. I’ve
gone ahead and scheduled a time immediately after the online meeting on Wednesday
next week when you and I can sit together and take care of this. That way you can be
sure nothing important is deleted.

Regards,
-David

On Feb 18, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Alexander Somov <somov at jlab.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I propose that you do whatever you need for the monitoring/farms
> and we'll take care and finalize dir hierarchy for
> electronics initialization. That would be the most efficient way.
> Once we come up with the more or less stable conf release,
> I'll put it under the svn (coda 3.01 has a lot of new features).
> 
> Again, please don't remove/move any of the existing files/dirs
> (I already have some bad experience from reorganazing things).
> 
> Cheers,
>       Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, David Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> I appreciate that you’re busy and would like to defer this until later. This is why
>> I’ve written so many specifics and have volunteered to do the work. It will clearly
>> be easier to finalize the directory structure you want if there is not a lot of junk
>> laying around.
>> 
>> It looks like we’re not actually using /gluex/devel/cool but rather
>> /gluex/setups/cool. This indicates it’s either too messy for you to keep
>> track of or for me to be able to figure out by looking at the setupcoda3 file.
>> Either way, something needs to be done. I’m looking to do this now because it
>> is preventing me from effectively working on the things I need to in the
>> online system.
>> 
>> Don’t worry about doing any of the work. I will take care of it and will move files
>> into backup areas so nothing will be lost. Once everything is in the repository
>> things won’t be so fragile since we’ll have backups and a record or what got
>> changed when, why, and by whom. I will likely get started on this Wednesday
>> afternoon.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> -David
>> 
>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Alexander Somov <somov at jlab.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> At this stage I would not remove anything. We'll need to finalize
>>> the config dir and rol hierarchy and play with hardware setups
>>> before we come up with the final dir structure. Currently
>>> we are using /gluex/devel and /gluex/release dirs
>>> 
>>> At the moment the cool db (which we and fcal guys are using) is in /gluex/devel/cool
>>> Configurations will be redone with the new coda (3.01) release.
>>> (we can move the final configuration to either to /gluex/release
>>> or /gluex/setups dirs ).
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>>      Alex
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, David Lawrence wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to try and clean up the filesystem on the gluon cluster and get some
>>>> more files backed up to the repository. This is needed, in part, in order to claim
>>>> certain activities as complete. Occasional housekeeping is also just a good idea.
>>>> 
>>>> I don’t want to break any currently working system or anything that is being
>>>> actively developed. However, there are lots of scattered bones of previous or
>>>> partially developed systems that need to get swept away. Here is a list of
>>>> directories that need to be consolidated and/or removed:
>>>> 
>>>> COOL configuration
>>>> ——————————————
>>>> /gluex/devel/cool
>>>> /gluex/devel/cool-old
>>>> /gluex/devel/cool_test*
>>>> /gluex/setups/cool
>>>> /gluex/COOL
>>>> 
>>>> The “cool_test" directory appears to be the one I imported into svn on 2/6/2014 but has
>>>> since been renamed. None of the others contain the .svn directory to link back to the
>>>> repository. It  looks like from /gluex/setups/setupcoda3 that now /gluex/setups/cool is
>>>> being used (unless you are user “somov" in which case /gluonfs1/home/somov/setups/cool
>>>> is used).
>>>> 
>>>> I propose that we choose one of these (/gluex/setups/cool) for use in the current
>>>> detector-specific DAQ systems and another (/gluex/etc/cool) for development of the
>>>> production system. I will use the latter to develop the monitoring system. Both will be
>>>> backed up to the svn repository. The others listed above will be removed.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ROLs
>>>> ——————————————
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_simple/rol
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_north/rol
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_simple_two/rol
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_n6/rol
>>>> /gluex/ROLs
>>>> /gluex/builds/devel/packages/rol*
>>>> /gluex/release/0.1/src/rol
>>>> /gluex/devel/src/rol
>>>> 
>>>> I believe at least a couple of these are in use for various things. The only one connected
>>>> to the repository is "/gluex/builds/devel/packages/rol” and I believe it does not contain
>>>> any ROLs that are currently (or have ever been) used on a SBC. Regardless, we should
>>>> consolidate what we can and then backup everything.
>>>> 
>>>> Based on modification dates, I suspect the following are no longer in use and should be
>>>> removed:
>>>> 
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_simple/rol
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_north/rol
>>>> /gluex/setups/fcal_simple_two/rol
>>>> /gluex/devel/src/rol
>>>> 
>>>> I also propose to consolidate the files in /gluex/ROLs and /gluex/builds/devel/packages/rol
>>>> so that they are backed up into the repository. The files in /gluex/setups/fcal_n6/rol
>>>> will also be backed up, but to a special directory specific to the FCAL.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> CODA
>>>> ——————————
>>>> /gluex/coda
>>>> /gluex/devel/coda/
>>>> /gluex/old_coda_stuff
>>>> 
>>>> I believe the first one is in use and the other two are no longer in use. I propose we remove
>>>> last two.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Other duplicates
>>>> ——————————————
>>>> /gluex/devel
>>>> /gluex/builds/devel
>>>> 
>>>> /gluex/setups
>>>> /gluex/etc/setups
>>>> 
>>>> It may not be necessary to consolidate either of these, but in general it is confusing for
>>>> people to navigate a system where multiple directories have the same name and
>>>> overlapping purpose.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please let me know if there are any specific objections to my cleaning things up as described
>>>> above. Also, it would be helpful to know if you agree with the changes since I’d like to try moving
>>>> on this sometime this week.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> -David
>>>> 
>>>> 
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