Concatenate
It is inefficient to store small files on tape. If a job
(e.g. "stage 1") produces small files, and if consumer job
("stage 2") can use multiple files per job, then "stage 1" output
files should be concatenated before writing them to tape. To do that,
one should define jobs based on
the JobConfig/cd3/common/artcat.fcl file using an
appropriate --merge value in
the generate_fcl call. Do not forget to set an
appropriate output file name in the template file, like
#include "JobConfig/cd3/common/artcat.fcl" outputs.out.fileName: "sim.DSOWNER.cd3-beam-cs3-mothers.DSCONF.SEQ.art"
The small input files can be left in their original "good"
directory. However if some jobs failed and were re-run, it is often
easier to mu2eFileUpload them to --scratch
and obtain a sorted list of inputs
with mu2eDatasetFileList.
Whether left in the original location or "uploaded", the individual
small files must be registered in SAM
with mu2eFileDeclare. See
the [postprocess.shtml#store postprocessing] page for
examples of using mu2eFileUpload
and mu2eFileDeclare.