Translations:Storage and file management/2/en: Difference between revisions

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.