Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
>
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jos van Wezel
>
> said:
>
>>The common misnomer nowadays, at least in part of the grid storage
>>world, is: "POSIX-like". This just means you have to rewrite your
>>program.
>
>
> I understand your point, but I think there is a valid distinction
> between something which just needs some headers which #define open() to
> rfio_open() etc and something which would need significant changes to
> the structure of the code - the former isn't really rewriting, just
> recompiling. Obviously some things can't easily be recompiled, but many
> can.
And a GFAL file system has already been tested, so at some point there
would not even be a real need to recompile programs that want to access
stuff under, say, /grid transparently.
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