grifi is a virtual file system (developed with FUSE) that allows a user to mount a remote directory using the gridftp protocol. It is based on the UberFTP client and on FTPFS from the LUFS project.

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This program is free software (NO WARRANTY of any kind). I used parts of differents projects, since the source code I took is free and my code is free I do not see any problem but if you think I am breaking any copyright law please tell me and I will do my best to fix the problem.

The current version can be fond at the project home site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grifi/

Development

You can use the sourceforge repository to get the last version.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/grifi login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/grifi co -P grifi

to update:

cd grifi
cvs -z3 update

Documentation

To try grifi we need to have installed FUSE and GridFTP from the Globus project (I tried the version 2 and 4 of globus and it worked so it should be relatively portable).

Installation

Follow the normal autotools procedure

$ ./configure --with-globus-flavor=gcc32dbg
$ make

and as root

# make install

Trying it

You just need the name of the remote server and an empty directory

$ grifi hostname /mnt/gridftp/

and you have a direct link to your home directory at the remote machine, if you want to specify the directory you can add it after the hostname.

$ grifi hostname:/tmp/ /mnt/gridftp/

When you are done with the GridFTP just unmount the directory

$ fusermount -u /mnt/gridftp/