Translations:Storage and file management/9/en
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Best practices
- Only use text format for files that are smaller than a few megabytes.
- As far as possible, use scratch and local storage for temporary files. For local storage you can use the temporary directory created by the job scheduler for this, named
$SLURM_TMPDIR. - If your program must search within a file, it is fastest to do it by first reading it completely before searching.
- Regularly clean up your data in the scratch and project spaces, because those filesystems are used for huge data collections.
- If you no longer use certain files but they must be retained, archive and compress them, and if possible copy them elsewhere.
- For more notes on managing many files, see Handling large collections of files, especially if you are limited by a quota on the number of files.
- If your needs are not well served by the available storage options please contact technical support.