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This is a quick tutorial for EOS.
EOS is an open-source storage software solution to manage multi PB storage for the CERN Large Hadron Collidor LHC. Core of the implementation is the XRootD framework providing a feature-rich remote access protocol.
export EOS_MGM_URL=root://eos<experiment>.cern.ch
export EOS_MGM_URL=root://eosuser.cern.ch
kinit <cern_username>@CERN.CH
eos mkdir /eos/lhcb/user/b/bla/blabla
eos ls /eos/lhcb/user/b/bla/blabla
eos root://eoslhcb.cern.ch ls -l /eos/lhcb/user/b/bla/blabla
eos help
.On our cluster some of the EOS instances are mounted with fuse, so they look like normal file systems to you and you can use standard linux commands. The mounted file systems are:
/eos/cms/
/eos/lhcb/
/eos/user/
To access these file systems, you need to have a CERN Kerberos ticket as for the EOS commands, but in addition you need to pass the ticket to the fuse system with the command eosfusebind
, similar to the aklog
command for AFS. You need therefore to execute the following commands:
kinit <cern_username>@CERN.CH ; eosfusebind
EOS commands and Linux commands in the EOS file system are not very resource efficient. If you need to transfer large amount of data, use the xrdcp
command:
xrdcp root://eoslhcb.cern.ch//eos/lhcb/user/b/bla/eos_tutorial/eos.txt eos.txt
xrdcp eos.txt root://eoslhcb.cern.ch//eos/lhcb/user/b/bla/eos_tutorial/eos.txteos.txt