Speaker
Dr
Antonio Messina
(ICTP Trieste)
Description
ELFI is a filesystem interface to the LFC catalog and
LCG/EGEE SE (both classic and
SRM v2).
With ELFI, you can see the entries in the LFC catalog as
files in a locally-mounted
filesystem, and directly operate on the replica
contents: read/write operations on the local filesystem are
acted as read/write
operations on a remote SE via the GSI-RFIO protocol. All
operations on the catalog
or the SE have a local filesystem equivalent.
ELFI features:
* Transparent file access via LFN only
* Posix ACL support
* Posix IO operations (throug gsi-rfio transport protocol)
* Classic SE, SRM v2.1.1 and SRM v2.2 support
* replica management via filesystem commands (``ln''
command)
The ELFI filesystem process runs entirely in user-space: it
uses the standard FUSE
(http://fuse.sf.net) userland filesystem framework.
Author
Dr
Antonio Messina
(ICTP Trieste)
