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

dmc-devel@cern.ch or dmc-support@cern.ch