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RNA-seq aligner
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named pipes (fifo files) on NFS? #1890

Open TdzBAS opened 1 year ago

TdzBAS commented 1 year ago

Hi Alex,

I am using STAR on a cluster. And I saw that I created Fifo-files (unzipped the readfiles on the fly). This is happening on the network file system (NFS). Can this cause any corrupted results, due to security, synchronization..? STAR is running without any interruptions and my results, as like the Log-files, are all looking reasonable and good. Do you know if there could be conflicts in the results, even if the tool runs perfectly?

Best, Tolga

alexdobin commented 1 year ago

Hi Tolga,

if the runs are completed smoothly, I do not think this will be an issue. It's likely that in case of catastrophic desynchronization, the runs will crash complaining about the formatting of the read files.