On Wed, 7 May 2008, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
[...] MDS itself is now completely gone.
In gLite 3.1. There are still quite a few 3.0 services out there.
As for the proposal, it suggests that all space tokens of a given type should be merged into a single SA, but personally I still think that we should publish one SA per token - this is e.g. how Jens' castor provider works and I find it extremely useful to keep track of free and used space. However, we should discuss this more offline as this is not an OGF/Glue 2 issue.
I believe everyone agrees with that now. At the time there were reservations from various developers, so we cooked up a compromise.
Finally, (prodding Laurence) I could not find *any* statement about what format GIP supports as primary input (although I might have missed this). I'd assume this is roughly GLUE v1.3/LDAP,
Well, it's LDIF conforming to the 1.3 schema, basically what you get from ldapsearch. As above, info providers need to publish their objects with DNs ending "mds-vo-name=resource,o=grid". It may also be worth pointing out that you can publish in two different ways: info providers publish entire objects, whereas gip plugins just publish the changes relative to a static file created by YAIM. [...]
And relative to the provider output.