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We would like to upgrade the xrootd server version for the Fermi xrootd cluster from 20090202-1402 to 20090721-0636.
The main reasons for the change is an improvement in the xrootd server and a configuration change.:
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The test xrootd has been setup for the directory removal (rmdir). It has been successfully used for some production
testing.
To switch the servers back to the old version the production link has to be set to the old version and a restart of all xrootd servers is needed.
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To allow production accounts (glastraw, glastxrw, glastmc and glast) to remove directory trees the xrootd forward method is used. The redirector will be configured to forward a rmdir request to all data servers. The data servers upon a request will execute a script that first checks if a directory is eligible for removal and then remove all files and directories below the specified directory. The xrootd configuration changes in the xrootd config are:
To deploy a new xrootd version the following steps are required:
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