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tempayyesterday at 9:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I’m a little confused by this submission. CASTOR is the old system that has since been replaced by the CERN Tape Array since ~2020: https://cta.web.cern.ch/cta/

This is mentioned on the page but it’s easy to miss.

For the current status of tape storage at CERN see: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1471803/contributions/6967379/a...

For reference, most disk storage for physics data uses an in-house solution called EOS: https://eos-web.web.cern.ch/eos-web/


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bfkwlfkjfyesterday at 9:43 PM

Does tape array replace castor? Just from the names it sounds like tape array is the actual storage, and castor is an abstraction that automatically decides what's kept on disk and what's kept on tape

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