Surely a local LFC shows you the files at your site and a global one files everywhere. -----Original Message----- From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher J.Walker Sent: 13 December 2011 16:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Local versus global LFC What's the difference between a local and global LFC. Is it only that the latter is published in the BDII? Or, to be more specific, shouldn't the LFC setup for snoplus be a global one? Chris