Francisco Ramirez

I remember running into this problem and spending a lot of time thinking about it without being able to find any sort of silver bullet solution. I guess the main...

To address any performance or storage issue we could just have a default behavior that stores a hash of the file hierarchy instead of the hierarchy itself. We may later...

Hey @zhubonan , thanks for the contribution! We are currently doing/discussing some changes in how we are handling the connections for external resources (in particular, ssh connections), so we need...

> It does not touch the ssh interface though (only `RemoteData.getfile` is used). Right, so this is one of the things. The `RemoteData` methods open and close the ssh connection...

Just one thing that I noticed making some tests. After the migration of the storage, the resulting repository has all files stored into packs but in a "non-optimal way". Meaning...

> @ramirezfranciscof if your issue is about the migration, we can just run a maintenance operation right after. But I think it's better to maybe just inform the user, and...

Just to make sure I understand: after #5496 `verdi storage maintain` should only do this cleanup if a `storage.sandbox` option exists in the configuration of that backend, if it is...

Also, considering this, we should instruct users to only specify a location there that will be used exclusively for AiiDA, for the same reason as above (risk of deleting temp...

> Thinking about it some more, the config options can be profile-specific but also config wide. We should be careful what should happen if it is defined config wide. Not...

Fair enough, I assume that means this is on hold until further notice. I'll just ping @giovannipizzi since he prompted for the feature in case he has anything to add...