1 .TH alifs 4 "" "ALICE Reference Manual"
4 alifs - a front-end shell for CASTOR and SHIFT
6 alifs [flags] <command [options]>
8 File System implementation:
11 rm [-f] [-i] [-r] dirname...
12 mkdir [-m absolute_mode] [-p] dirname...
16 CASTOR implementation:
17 ls [-cdilRTu] [--class] [--comment] path
19 rm [-f] [-i] [-r] dirname...
20 mkdir [-m absolute_mode] [-p] dirname...
25 This is an interface script to underlying mass storage manager. At present it supports CASTOR on RH6.1 and offers some basic Unix like commands:
28 alifs ls [-cdilRTu] [--class] [--comment] path
30 o) move (rename) file or directory
31 alifs mv oldname newname...
33 o) remove file or directory
34 alifs rm [-f] [-i] [-r] dirname...
37 alifs mkdir [-m absolute_mode] [-p] dirname...
40 alifs cp [-s maxsize] f1 f2
43 CASTOR file system is accessible via RFIO (root must be configured configured with --enable-rfio switch and linked with appropriate libshift.a library). It provides experiment topl level directory (/castor/cern.ch/alice) and user directories following the AFS naming scheeme (like /castor/cern.ch/user/b/buncic).
44 For more info on CASTOR commands, see related man pages (nsls, nsrename, nsrm, nsmkdir,rfcp,rfstat).
48 Predrag Buncic, e-mail: Predrag.Buncic@cern.ch