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The nearline storage space is tape-based and designed to store '''large''' files which are '''infrequently accessed'''. | The nearline storage space is tape-based and designed to store '''large''' files which are '''infrequently accessed'''. | ||
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The nearline filesystem is only accessible from the login and data-transfer nodes of the cluster (not compute nodes). If you have many and/or small files, you should use a tool like [[Tar]] or [[Dar]] to aggregate them into large archive files. | The nearline filesystem is only accessible from the login and data-transfer nodes of the cluster (not compute nodes). If you have many and/or small files, you should use a tool like [[Tar]] or [[Dar]] to aggregate them into large archive files. | ||
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Because such operations can be resource-intensive, they may not be appropriate on login nodes so use data-transfer nodes, | Because such operations can be resource-intensive, they may not be appropriate on login nodes so use data-transfer nodes, | ||
or create the archive files on another filesystem before moving to nearline. | or create the archive files on another filesystem before moving to nearline. | ||