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What is GFAL2 ?

GFAL2 offers an a single and simple toolkit for the file operations in grids and cloud environments. The set of supported protocols depends on the installed plugins.

Supported protocols :

  • Local File file://
  • SRM srm://
  • GSIFTP gsiftp://
  • HTTP(S) http://, WebDav(s) dav://
  • XROOTD root://
  • DCAP/GSIDCAP/KDCAP dcap://
  • RFIO rfio://
  • LFC <lfc://, lfn://, guid://>

License

GFAL2 is under the Apache License 2.0

Documentation

See https://dmc-docs.web.cern.ch/dmc-docs/gfal2/gfal2.html for more details

Build

Install dependencies

On a clean SLCX/fedora/EL system the following 'extra' packages are needed to be installed:

yum install cmake doxygen glib2-devel libattr-devel openldap-devel zlib-devel lfc-devel dpm-devel srm-ifce-devel dcap-devel globus-gass-copy-devel davix-devel xrootd-client-devel libssh2-devel gtest-devel

Additionally, e2fsprogs-devel on SLC5, or libuuid-devel on higher versions.

Compile

git clone https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2.git
cd gfal2
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
ccmake .. # configure the plugins that you need and enable the test if wished
make

Installation

make install

Tests

make test

Contributions

Any contributions, patch or external plugins is welcome.

Contact

[email protected] or [email protected]