gfalfs(1) - Linux man page

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Synopsis

gfalFS [options] mntdir remote_url

unmounting :

gfalFS_umount mntdir

Description

This include the common file access protocols in lcg ( SRM, GRIDFTP, DCAP, RFIO, LFN, ...).

The practical effect is that the user can seamlessly interact with grid and cloud storage systems just as if they were local files.

https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/lcgutil/wiki/gfal2
https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/lcgutil/wiki/gfalFS

The protocol support depends directly of the GFAL 2.0 plugin installation.

Options

-d

debug mode - does not act anymore like a daemon and print usefull information about the current operations.

-g

guid mode - access directly to the file by the guid name on the current lfc.

-s

single thread mode - Use only one thread to execute the operations, this cause a major slowdown of the execution but guarantee a protection against thread safety problems.

-v

enable verbose mode - print more informations about the current execution, can be use with -d in case of problems .

-V

print the version number.

Examples

Mount an SRM directory with transparent file operations :

mkdir ~/my_mnt/

gfalFS ~/my_mnt -d -v srm://cvitbdpm1.cern.ch/dpm/cern.ch/home/dteam/

echo "Hello world" > ~/my_mnt/hello; cat ~/my_mnt/hello; cp ~/my_mnt/hello /tmp/test_hello;

Mount an GRIDFTP directory and create a directory :

gfalFS ~/my_mnt gsiftp://cvitbdpm1.cern.ch/dpm/cern.ch/home/dteam/

mkdir ~/my_mnt/testdir; stat ~/my_mnt/testdir;

gfalFS_umount ~/my_mnt/

Mount an LFC directory and list a directory :

gfalFS ~/my_mnt lfn://grid/dteam

/bin/ls ~/my_mnt;

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