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Compute Canada provides a wide range of storage options to cover the needs of our very diverse users. These storage solutions range from high-speed temporary local storage to different kinds of long-term storage, so you can choose the storage medium that best corresponds to your needs and usage patterns. In most cases the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system filesystems] on Compute Canada systems are a ''shared'' resource and for this reason should be used responsibly - unwise behaviour can negatively affect dozens or hundreds of other users. These filesystems are also designed to store a limited number of very large files, typically binary rather than text files, i.e. they are not directly human-readable. You should therefore avoid storing thousands of small files, where small means less than a few megabytes, particularly in the same directory. A better approach is to use commands like [[Archiving and compressing files|<tt>tar</tt>]] or <tt>zip</tt> to convert a directory containing many small files into a single very large archive file.
Compute Canada provides a wide range of storage options to cover the needs of our very diverse users. These storage solutions range from high-speed temporary local storage to different kinds of long-term storage, so you can choose the storage medium that best corresponds to your needs and usage patterns. In most cases the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system filesystems] on Compute Canada systems are a ''shared'' resource and for this reason should be used responsibly - unwise behaviour can negatively affect dozens or hundreds of other users. These filesystems are also designed to store a limited number of very large files, which are typically binary since very large (hundreds of MB or more) text files lose most of their interest in being human-readable. You should therefore avoid storing tens of thousands of small files, where small means less than a few megabytes, particularly in the same directory. A better approach is to use commands like [[Archiving and compressing files|<tt>tar</tt>]] or <tt>zip</tt> to convert a directory containing many small files into a single very large archive file.

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We provide a wide range of storage options to cover the needs of our very diverse users. These storage solutions range from high-speed temporary local storage to different kinds of long-term storage, so you can choose the storage medium that best corresponds to your needs and usage patterns. In most cases the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system filesystems] on our systems are a <i>shared</i> resource and for this reason should be used responsibly because unwise behaviour can negatively affect dozens or hundreds of other users. These filesystems are also designed to store a limited number of very large files, which are typically binary since very large (hundreds of MB or more) text files lose most of their interest in being readable by humans. You should therefore avoid storing tens of thousands of small files, where small means less than a few megabytes, particularly in the same directory. A better approach is to use commands like [[Archiving and compressing files|<code>tar</code>]] or <code>zip</code> to convert a directory containing many small files into a single very large archive file.

Compute Canada provides a wide range of storage options to cover the needs of our very diverse users. These storage solutions range from high-speed temporary local storage to different kinds of long-term storage, so you can choose the storage medium that best corresponds to your needs and usage patterns. In most cases the filesystems on Compute Canada systems are a shared resource and for this reason should be used responsibly - unwise behaviour can negatively affect dozens or hundreds of other users. These filesystems are also designed to store a limited number of very large files, which are typically binary since very large (hundreds of MB or more) text files lose most of their interest in being human-readable. You should therefore avoid storing tens of thousands of small files, where small means less than a few megabytes, particularly in the same directory. A better approach is to use commands like tar or zip to convert a directory containing many small files into a single very large archive file.