Hello,
LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tomas Kouba
said:
> > we have a request from a user to support glite-io-client.
I am the user :-).
> > (...)
> > Simply: what is it for?
> It was part of the glite data management project in EGEE I, along with
> the Fireman file catalogue. Both of them have been dropped in EGEE II,
> but there was some legacy support because some users (I think mainly in
> biomed) had software which used it. I don't think it will ever be
> released in production. It would probably be harmless to install the
> client, but it won't be useful without a server to talk to.
I believe that the gLiteIO had the in-storage file encryption capability that seems beneficial to the wide range of applications (not necessarily BioMed).
Is there any plan to add the functionality to the current file catalogs?
--
Michał
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