Globus Toolkit® 3.2 RFT Release Notes

The Reliable File Transfer Service (RFT) is a WS component that provides interfaces for controlling and monitoring third party file transfers using GridFTP servers.

The 3.2 release contains bug fixes and extended functionality. In particular, this version of RFT supports recursive directory copy between GridFTP servers that support MLSD/MLST features.

The schemas of the service have been re-worked, which increased the scalability of service significantly.

A new service instance level option has been added that would turn on data channel reuse if your request consists of multiple transfers between same hosts, which would further enhance the performance.

A new command line client has been added which, in addition to being able to submit transfer requests to service, can also serve as a notification sink to display number of transfers done/failed, etc.

Fixed Bugs

Bug 1124
Bug 1092
Bug 1057

New Features

Reliable Recursive Directory Copy
Optional Data Channel Reuse
Fixed Scalability problems by reworking schemas. Made schemas more generic
Added a Client that can submit transfers and also serves as notification sink for status of transfers.