Brief notes from SRM Coordination meeting of Oct 22 2007
Present: H.Renshall (chair+notes), F.Donno, T.Cass, J.Gordon, G.Oleynik
There were no comments on the notes of the previous meeting.
The main topic was a review of the status of experiment testing by FD.
Following the release of dcache patch level 21 this was installed at
the Tier-1 dcache sites apart from NDGF. Unfortunately it exposed
configuration problems and new bugs so essentially all dcache sites
except NDGF were down this week. The developers have now released
patches 22 and 23. Patch 23 has been tested at DESY by doing a fresh install
and found to fix the patch 21 problems but exposed a new one with
gridftp which is surprising. This has been reported and will be followed
up with the developers by GO.
Today we had a CERN Oracle problem and CNAF CASTOR became unavailable
though STORM has been working well. ATLAS has been exercising transfers
but without space tokens but will now pause testing till after their M5
detector cosmics run ends on 5 November.
We have not yet tried CASTOR at CERN as a source with SRM 2.2 but this
is now planned for next week. LHCb are ready for this now but need
external sites.
It was agreed to meet next week, October 29, to follow up these problems
and probably skip the November 5 meeting as there will be several absences.