gfal2-plugin-xrootd

Description

Plugin for GFAL2 to access data through xrootd. URLs that begin with root:// will use this plugin. All GFAL2 functions are supported in this plugin except pread/pwrite and readlink/symlink (symlinks are not supported in xrootd).

Build requirements

Build requirements:

To build and install:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install
		

When installed from source, GFAL_PLUGIN_DIR should be set to the installation directory of the plugin, by default this is /usr/local/lib/gfal2-plugins but it can be changed via configure options.

Configuration

The plugin configuration group is XROOTD PLUGIN. Two parameters are accepted:

COPY_CHECKSUM_TYPE
Default checksum to be used on third party copies. Possible values are ADLER32, MD5, SHA1...
COPY_CHECKSUM_MODE
Which ends should be validated against the checksum. Possible values are

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 License. See LICENSE for details.

Release Notes

See RELEASE-NOTES for a detailed changelog.

Contact

You can notify bugs or ask for feature requests via

Tracker
https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/DMC/component/10935
Mailing list
dmc-support@cern.ch