Speaker
Remi Mollon
(CERN)
Description
GFAL, or Grid File Access Library, is a C library developed by
LCG to give a uniform POSIX interface to local and remote
Storage Elements on the Grid. LCG-Util is a set of tools to
copy/replicate/delete files and register them in a Grid File
Catalog.
In order to match experiment requirements, these two components
had to evolve. Thus, the new Storage Resource Manager interface,
SRM v2.2, is now supported.
In addition to that, important requirements were to have a python
interface to GFAL/LCG-Util, and to fully support Logical File Name
(LFN) at GFAL level.
Data privacy is a very important issue for some people. Therefore,
we have to integrate Hydra client into GFAL. It allows to manage
encrypted files and the cryptographic keys. Others important
topics of development are to optimize the number of requests to
BDII, and also to provide Perl API to GFAL and LCG-Util.
Primary authors
Akos Frohner
(CERN)
David Smith
(CERN)
Jean-Philippe Baud
(CERN)
Krzysztof Nienartowicz
(CERN)
Lana Abadie
(CERN)
Remi Mollon
(CERN)
Sophie Lemaitre
(CERN)
