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Hi Wen,

Yes, that is understood. We envisioned that the transfer agent would handle 
whatever checksum was needed.

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wen guan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Andrew Hanushevsky" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "Yang, Wei" <[log in to unmask]>; "xrootd-l" 
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: xrootd checksum doesn't support oss.namelib


> Hi Andrew,
>
>      Another thing, xrootd checksum does not support FRM structure
> too. If the file is in backend pool, xrd stat can work but rsscmd
> doesn't support chksum.
>
> Thanks
> Wen
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Andrew Hanushevsky
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Wen,
>>
>> Yes, the checksum stuff runs out of xrootd itself which doesn't know
>> anything but lfn. We won't have an internal solution to this until the 
>> next
>> release. People, in general, do what Wei does (i.e., do an external n2n
>> conversion). That's OK when the transfomation is fairly trivial but
>> complicated otherwise.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Yang, Wei wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Wen,
>>>
>>> This is true. xrootd passes logical name to checksum script, not the 
>>> path
>>> after N2N. this remain an issue for us as well (and for now we have to 
>>> do
>>> N2N again in the checksum script).
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Wei Yang | [log in to unmask] | 650-926-3338(O)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2010, at 8:49 AM, wen guan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It seems xrootd checksum doesn't support oss.namelib. When I use a
>>>> private oss.namelib to map a path to another path,
>>>> xrdClientAdmin->Stat works, but xrdClientAdmin->getChksum doesn't
>>>> work. Could you help check?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Wen
>>>
>>>
>>
>