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• Use scratch disks
  • need to be able to leave files on scratch for a couple of hours without having a process running
  • need to be able to copy files between batch machines with a process only at the receive end of the transfer

• Not stage files stored on AFS to/from scratch
  • AFS' internal caching means that we are copying the data twice.
  • This may be particularly useful for recon, where crumb jobs don't even use the whole file.