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CASTOR and GridFTP. Emil Knezo PPARC-LCG-Fellow CERN IT-DS-HSM August 2002. Agenda. Current CASTOR connection to the outside world GridFTP status/plans GSI-CASTOR code integration status. CASTOR layout. TMS. VDQM server. VDQM server. NAME server. RFIO Client. NAME server.
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CASTOR and GridFTP Emil Knezo PPARC-LCG-Fellow CERN IT-DS-HSM August 2002
Agenda • Current CASTOR connection to the outside world • GridFTP status/plans • GSI-CASTOR code integration status CASTOR & GridFTP / Emil Knezo
CASTOR layout TMS VDQM server VDQM server NAME server RFIO Client NAME server STAGER RTCPD TPDAEMON (PVR) RTCPD (TAPE MOVER) RFIOD (DISK MOVER) MSGD VOLUME manager DISK POOL CASTOR & GridFTP / Emil Knezo
CASTOR and outside world • Current CASTOR connection to the outside world: • ftp • bbftp • sftp (from mid. September) CERN CASTOR WACDR (disk-server) - wuftpd; - bbftpd; - (sftp-server) 2.5Gbit/s DataTAG link 1Gbit/s ftp, bbftp, (sftp) rfio CASTOR & GridFTP / Emil Knezo
GridFTP plans • GridFTP access to CASTOR via “wacdr” • GSI authentication in wacdr • Make GT2GridFTP server CASTOR-compliant • GT2GridFTP core is wuftpd-2.6.1 (CASTOR-compliant) • Not clear yet if all GridFTP extensions to vanilla FTP will be supported • Delivery time -- mid-October CASTOR & GridFTP / Emil Knezo
Restrictions & known problems • Restrictions : • Users without CERN-account can access CASTOR only via pool-accounts. • No CASTOR-to-CASTOR copy via GridFTP • Problems: • Connection timeout for not-staged file • Staging time can reach up to 2hrs. • No instrumentation in GridFTP/Ftp protocol to prevent this timeout CASTOR & GridFTP / Emil Knezo
GSI-CASTOR code • GSI-CASTOR version-2 (April 2002) • Not tested with CASTOR yet and therefore not in production • Based on CASTOR-1.3.4.6 • meanwhile -- changes in CASTOR • To do: • Make it CASTOR-1.5 compliant • Test & put into production • Not before Christmas CASTOR & GridFTP / Emil Knezo