How well does SRB handle packaging small data packets into “bundles”, and store?
Very well. SRB can do bulk loads with or without containers (our term for “bundles”). Without using containers, a bulk load packs a large number of small files and ships them all at once to the server. The server then unpacks it into small files. With the use of containers, small files are packed into a container and the server saves the container as a single file. This use of containers is very simple and transparent to users. This is the recommended way of storing small files in HPSS.
