Hello Lak,
I just today dealt with this problem, but for me the potential race
condition remains.
You can specify where the temporary files are placed with
DiskCache.setRootDirectory("grib_data");
You can purge that directory with
DiskCache.cleanCache(new java.util.Date(),null);
That does an immediate purge, but you could specify a later date that
might minimize the potential race condition.
I've only just tried this for a few hours. It works for keeping the
*.gbx files out of our data directories.
There's probably a better solution, and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
-Bill
On 2/9/2009 12:41 PM, Valliappa Lakshmanan wrote:
I've been using the Java Netcdf API and am running into several issues
with the temporary files that are created.
For example, when a gzipped NetCDF file is read, an uncompressed
version is written to disk before it is read. I assume that this is
because the NetCDF API allows for file seeks etc.
which wouldn't be possible if the file remained gzipped. But (and this
is the problem), the uncompressed
file is stored in the SAME directory as the original file. This causes
three major problems (in increasing order
of severity):
(a) The data directory (which would be considered read-only) is being
modified. This causes problems
because of the I/O optimizations that we do on real-time systems
(b) The temporary file is not automatically cleaned up, so these
temporaries start to fill up the disk.
But removing the temporary file when the original file is closed
is not enough because of problem (c).
(c) if there are two simultaneous programs reading a gzipped file,
then a potential for race conditions exists
The same problem seems to exist when reading a Grib1 file (a .gbx
temporary file is created).
Is there any work-around for this problem?
Lak
p.s. I suggest the consistent use of java.io.File's createTempFile() ...
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