Globus GridFTP Plugin for iRODS
February 3, 2017
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Chapel Hill, NC
Justin James
Applications Engineer
iRODS Consortium
GridFTP and Globus Overview
GridFTP iRODS Data Storage Interface
Using the GridFTP Client with iRODS
$ globus-url-copy file.dat gsiftp://server.example.org:2811/tempZone/home/user1/file.dat
$ globus-url-copy gsiftp://server.example.org:2811/tempZone/home/user1/file.dat file2.dat
$ diff file.dat file2.dat
Security
$ iadmin aua user1 "/O=Grid/OU=GlobusTest/OU=simpleCA-server.example.org/OU=Globus Simple CA/CN=user1"
$ less /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile
"/O=Grid/OU=GlobusTest/OU=simpleCA-server.example.org/OU=Globus Simple CA/CN=user1" user1
Diagram
More Information
The iRODS DSI Code can be found at:
https://github.com/EUDAT-B2STAGE/B2STAGE-GridFTP
A blog post with more detail can be found at:
https://irods.org/2017/02/setting-up-irods-4.2-with-gridftp-using-b2stage-gridftp/