HOWTO: Access Chirp Filesystems

This table shows a variety of ways for accessing Chirp-based filesystems.

Tool Used For Platforms Example Use
Chirp Tools
Administration.
Managing access controls.
Browsing and copying.
Best file transfer performance. Linux
Solaris
MacOS
Windows
Others?
% chirp server.nd.edu > ls > get file.txt > setacl ...

Parrot
Runs any ordinary program.
Managing access controls.
Browsing and copying.
Reduced file transfer performance. Linux x86 and x86_64.
Install and run
as any normal user.
% parrot tcsh % cd /chirp/server.nd.edu % ls -la % cp file.txt /tmp

FUSE
MacFUSE Runs any ordinary program.
Browsing and copying.
Can not manage access controls.
Reduced file transfer performance. Linux
or MacOS
Need root access
to install FUSE.
% chirp_fuse mydir % cd mydir/server.nd.edu % ls -la % cp file.txt /tmp

Chirp API All purposes with best performance.
(But you have to write code.) Linux
Solaris
MacOS
Windows
Others? Example Code
Chirp Catalog
Managing a cluster of servers. Any web browser.
Chirp Visual
Viewing capacity, load, and network activity. Any web browser with Java.