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(Digel) This is summarizing what was worked out between Maria-Elena and Don Horner to allow the FSSC to handle receiving reprocessed data without interrupting ingest of output from the L1 pipeline. This 'dual ingest pipeline' scheme will allow reprocessed data to be transferred in the background, for little or no downtime when a switch is made to a new version. Incidentally the naming scheme of the FT1 files is also being modified to include the processing version as part of the name; that change is not covered here but will be documented in the File Format Document. The addition would go in LS1 as well.
definition in progressThe keyword will go into the primary headers of the files
The value starts at 0 and will be incremented (perhaps not necessarily sequentially) in reprocessings.
This has been implemented in the File Format Document
28. Including PASS_VER keyword
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