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NGI CZ:CVMFS for auger
CVMFS for auger
Historical introduction (can be skipped by impatient readers)
CVMFS is a distribution tool for software (and other relatively small files). It started to be used by LHC experiments, several other projects deployed it later, all with very good experience. LHC projects use master repository called stratum-0 based at CERN. The master repository for some other projects is hosted by RAL and is decribed at GRIDPP wiki page. VO auger is not supported by RAL site and we started a CVMFS repository hosted by OSG. RAL site can replicate the master repository and distribute it via the same stratum-1's as for other nonLHC VOs. However the path would change from /cvmfs/opensciencegrid/ to /cvmfs/auger.gridpp.ac.uk
the VO auger was created by EGI CVMFS task forced and is hosted by RAL. The first solution described