But… should we continue this way?
- it’s easier-- we are all set up and used to it (and don’t bother me when QM02 is on the horizon)
- it’s a bit silly to write essentially the same information into several files
- even the big four’s mDSTs will grow when FTPC information is included
- the big four have new friends who might like some storage space too
- TOFp, RICH, high-pT (??) Spin, EMC all have their own mDSTs now
- fragmenting the data (tracks in one ntuple, EMC in another, V0s elsewhere) is short-sighted and does not exploit full potential of STAR
- e.g. v2(V0) analysis could not use flow pDST and resorted to (slow) DSTs (well, could have used HBT mDST…)
- IMHO: even if we get away with it this time, at some point in (near) future, we will have to come to same solution to which every mature analysis/experiment comes-- we should start and get experience with this
- common datasource encourages common cut values (centrality…)