Dear Globus users/admins, We've been trying to get directory transfers to work with RSL in GT6 (GRAM5), but haven't had any luck so far. We haven't been able to find any examples online of RSL that includes a directory transfer as part of file_stage_in or file_stage_out, but we thought it might be possible because it does work in our GT4-based system.
Here is an example attempted directory transfer: (file_stage_in = (gsiftp:// arginine.umiacs.umd.edu/home/gt6admin/GT6Upgrade/GT4.2/garli/trunk/test/emptyDir/ $(HOME)/2535472060.225141373834153/)) Note that $(HOME)/2535472060.225141373834153/ does not exist before this job is executed --- transferring an empty directory and essentially renaming it is the trick we use with GT4 to cause the working directory to be created remotely before we stage additional files into it. However, we have also tried non-empty directories, and those don't work either. So anyway, the question's pretty simple: can you transfer entire directories in GT6-compatible RSL? As an aside, we can get the behavior we want out of globus-url-copy by adding the -cd and -r flags, but it's unclear if this functionality is available through GRAM. thanks, Adam
