Yes, we only support the root:// protocol, and plan to keep it that way too, Cheers, Fons. On 24/09/2010 14:41, Lukasz Janyst wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Amir Farbin<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> Yes, in thread 1 it is the whole call stack which is very deep. That said, when you sau "use xrd" is that using the xroot client (e.g., xroot://....)? >> >> Yes. I chain files with root://... as prefix. Note the prefix is not xroot. Is there a difference? > > To make it more confusing it looks like ROOT only maps "root://" > prefix to the xroot protocol. > >> >>> If so, what version are you using? >> Good point... stupid me never thought that the client might be the problem. I'm using whatever version of xrootd that comes with ROOT 5.26/00. Do you recommend a dev version of ROOT? > > I doubt it will help. > > Lukasz > -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://fons.rademakers.org Fax: +41 22 7669640