[Halld-offline] mounting SRM as a fuse volume

[David Lawrence]

Hi Richard,

   This sounds like a nice option. Is it possible a short recipe could 
be written in a HOWTO on our wiki?

Regards,
-David

On 12/18/12 9:45 AM, Richard Jones wrote:
> Offliners,
>
> One interesting option is available to those who might want to start 
> using the new high-statistics pythia sample we have created on the OSG 
> in the data challenge.  You can simply mount the grid filesystem on 
> your local linux box using FUSE.  Fuse is a feature of the more recent 
> linux kernels to allow you to do mount/umount of remote filesystems of 
> various kinds without root privs.  Some sysadmins may block this, but 
> if it is your own desktop/laptop there should not be a problem.
>
> If you have fuse mount privs on your local box, you can simply mount 
> any grid directory using the tools developed for the LHC grid, and 
> then access the files as if they were on  your local disk.  An 
> underlying transport layer makes the data connections over gridftp, so 
> it is quite fast and efficient, depending of course on your network 
> speed.  I just tested this on a Centos 5 box, and it works. I could ls 
> the filesystem and then browse inside the rest data files using hddm-xml.
>
> -Richard J.
>
>
>
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