aod-merger treats Zombie files like missing ones

[shahor02]

Zombie (corrupted) files will be skipped instead of crashing the job if the option
--skip-non-existing-files is requested.

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[jgrosseo]

@shahor02 According to the docs, the situation should never occur...

[shahor02]

@jgrosseo did not know about that, thanks! But the log before the crash was clearly showing "zombie" state. Is merging run with --skip-non-existing-files ?

[jgrosseo]

I guess depends which merging you are talking about. Usually we don't skip files in analysis for example. What job was this?

[shahor02]

Merging of MC AOD's, should ask Mesut which one.

[chiarazampolli]

Taking a random MC merging, I see it is not used:

https://alimonitor.cern.ch/users/download.jsp?view=true&path=/alice/cern.ch/user/a/aliprod/LHC23k6/AOD_merge.sh

what is called is only

o2-aod-merger --input list.list

@catalinristea and Michal Broz should confirm if it is always like this.

Chiara