On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Dr D J Colling wrote:
> As I understand it this release uses MDS 2.2 which should be a great
> improvement in stability (no more MDS hanging because one site has
> droppped out). However it is fundementally incompatible with with the
> current version. If I am wrong in this please would somebody correct me.
Probably yes given that the DIT has apparently changed. In any case the
Replica Catalogues and corresponding software (GDMP and replica manager)
are also incompatible. That means that essentially all machine types (CE,
SE, WN, UI, RC, RB, MDS) need to change together - I think the only
thing which doesn't change is the VO server. File information in
RCs will have to be copied to the new format if VOs want to keep it
(I think WP2 have a tool to do that).
Stephen
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