Commons VFS - UI
Welcome to commons VFS Mananger. It is a gui application for the Commons VFS implementation from Apache
(http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/vfs/)
Supported File Systems
The following file systems are prided by the vanilla implementation of VFS:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/vfs/filesystems.html
Grid Computing File System Support
Commons VFS UI supports two grid computing file systems:
- A provider for the Storage Resource Broker: http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/
- A provider for GridFTP from Globus: http://www.globus.org/
User Interface
The main UI looks like a regular file browser, as shown in the following figure:
Files can be moved between file systems by drag and drop
Adding a File System
To Add a new File System click in the "New File system" toolbar button and type the URI for the file system as
explained by the commons documentation. See the figure bellow:
Grid Computing File System(s) Examples
To add a file system to the storage resource broker for user vsilva in domain ACME on a host named myhost:
- srb://vsilva.ACME@myhost:5544/
For a GridFTP server running in the same machine the URI would be:
- gsiftp://myhost:2811/ (User certificates should be properly configured)
Author: Vladimir Silva
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