The Grid File Access Library 2 offers a POSIX interface to the distributed files system supported by WLCG.
Differents file systems are supported by a collections of GFAL 2 plugins, this is a non complete list:
GFAL2 itself abstracts the access to different underlying storage systems - including local -, but in order to get support for a given protocol, its corresponding plugin needs to be installed.
For convenience we provide a package called gfal2-all, which will trigger the installation of all these packages.
gfal2-devel is required only for development.
A typical installation can be done as easy as bellow:
yum install gfal2-all gfal2-devel
Shipped separatly there is also available a plugin for XRootD (root://) protocol: gfal2-plugin-xrootd
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You can also have a look at the examples folder to see some simple usage of the API.
This software is licensed under the Apache 2 License. See LICENSE for details.
See RELEASE-NOTES for a detailed changelog.
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