Dear Experts,
In my analysis I often need to update large set of ROOT files (~500-1000 files) that are placed at /eos/… Typically, each time I add new branches to the TTrees in these files.
Unfortunately very often ROOT fails to update these files. The problem is not easy to reproduce.
While individual failure rate (per-file) is not 100%, the combined failure rate (per set of files) often reaches 100%. However sometime there is no failures.
When I keep all these files on afs, there are no failures at all. Therefore I have strong suspicion that problem is somehow related to /eos/…
On my machine eos is mounted via FUSE.
I’ve been adviced to use the file access via the explicit protocol
“root://…” but it from th efirst sight it even increase the failure rate.
In my “main” setup I relay on ROOT builds from cvmfs LCG dev3 nightly slot,
but the problems persists also for LCG_103 slot
I’ve also tried to use several different versions of ROOT, and I have some small evidence that the
failure rate is somehow smaller for the ROOT version from the LCG_101 slot
Surely for a time being I can keep the files on afs, where no problems occurs,
but my afs quota is not unlimited and I am already close to the limits.
Also CERN IT discourages the usage of afs
Is there recommended solution for this problem?
(For me it is not clear if it is ROOT or EOS problem.
From the figtj sight it loos like ES problem, but I’ve looked into
code of TFile::Open and I see the code explicitely performs some EOS-specific actions.
