Ticket #8207 (closed: invalid)

Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

[ICAT] Mac friendly mount path

Reported by: Jay Rainey Owned by: Jay Rainey
Priority: minor Milestone: Release 3.1
Component: Framework Keywords: ICAT,ICAT4
Cc: Blocked By: #6457
Blocking: Tester: Owen Arnold

Description

In #7637 Owen noted that:

We also want to be confident that we can specify mac-friendly mount points.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by Jay Rainey

  • Component changed from User Interface to Framework

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by Jay Rainey

  • Milestone changed from Release 3.0 to Release 3.1

comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by Jay Rainey

  • Summary changed from Output ICAT mount point to [ICAT] Mac friendly mount path

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by Jay Rainey

  • Status changed from new to verify
  • Resolution set to invalid

Currently, we use "/archive" as the default mac mount point. The user can change this if they wish (if they have mounted the archives elsewhere). There is relevant documentation to do this online.

To test

Ensure that the mount path of your archives is set to the correct location of where your archives is mounted. You will need to update Facilities.xml if this is not mounted at /archive.

  1. Set the Log level to Debug.
  2. Log into the catalog.
  3. Perform a search (For example, select IRS as the instrument and enter bob into keywords.)
  4. Select an investigation (double click) and the datafile table will be populated.
  5. Select a datafile and Load. The file should load directly into Mantid. In debug within the console you should see output similar to: 
CatalogDownloadDataFiles -> File location before transform is: \\isis\inst$\Instruments$\NDXIRIS\Instrument\data\cycle_98_0\IRS11638.RAW
CatalogDownloadDataFiles -> File location after transform is:  /archive/NDXIRIS/Instrument/data/cycle_98_0/IRS11638.RAW

Note: you should not see a getDownloadURL being generated. This indicates that the archives are not mounted at the location you have set in Facilities.xml.

Last edited 7 years ago by Jay Rainey (previous) (diff)

comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by Owen Arnold

  • Status changed from verify to verifying
  • Tester set to Owen Arnold

comment:6 follow-up: ↓ 7 Changed 7 years ago by Owen Arnold

I have verified this is working. I would suggest however that we could provide some instructions on how users can perform the mount on their respective platforms. Some users will not have enough technical knowledge to know how to do this.

comment:7 in reply to: ↑ 6 ; follow-up: ↓ 8 Changed 7 years ago by Jay Rainey

I would suggest however that we could provide some instructions on how users can perform the mount on their respective platforms.

I have previously written documentation (under "ICAT mount points") that highlights how to change mount points.

comment:8 in reply to: ↑ 7 Changed 7 years ago by Owen Arnold

Replying to Jay Rainey:

I would suggest however that we could provide some instructions on how users can perform the mount on their respective platforms.

I have previously written documentation (under "ICAT mount points") that highlights how to change mount points.

Agreed, and that documentation is good. This is more what commands users need to run to mount the drives on each platform.

comment:9 Changed 7 years ago by Owen Arnold

  • Status changed from verifying to closed

comment:10 Changed 5 years ago by Stuart Campbell

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​9052

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