[gtmanuals-commit] CVS update: MODIFIED: gridftp

[Annette DeSchon]

, GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml
 ...

  User: deschon 
  Date: 10/03/29 17:18:34

  Modified:    toolkit/docs/5.0/5.0.1/data/gridftp
                        GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml
  Log:
  Added Limitations section.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.12      +60 -3     alliance/toolkit/docs/5.0/5.0.1/data/gridftp/GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml
  
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  Index: GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml
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  RCS file: /home/globdev/CVS/alliance-web/alliance/toolkit/docs/5.0/5.0.1/data/gridftp/GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml,v
  retrieving revision 1.11
  retrieving revision 1.12
  diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12
  --- GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml	29 Mar 2010 20:30:40 -0000	1.11
  +++ GridFTP_Interface_Commandline_Client_Frag.xml	29 Mar 2010 22:18:34 -0000	1.12
  @@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@
               </entry>
               <entry>
                 <para>Specifies the original URL of the file(s) to be copied. </para>
  -              <para>If this is a directory, all files within that directory will be copied. </para>
  +              <para>If this is a directory, all files within that directory that need to be synchronized will be listed. </para>
               </entry>
             </row>
             <row>
  @@ -1273,7 +1273,10 @@
               </entry>
               <entry>
                 <para> Specifies the URL where you want to copy the files.</para>
  -              <para>If you want to copy multiple files, this must be a directory. </para>
  +              <para>The types of the source and the destination must match.
  +				In other words, if the source is a file, the destination must be a file, and 
  +                if the source is a directory, the destination must be a directory. 
  +			  </para>
               </entry>
             </row>
           </tbody>
  @@ -1338,7 +1341,61 @@
     </refsect1>
     <refsect1 id="globus-url-sync-limitations">
       <title>Limitations</title>
  -	<para>TBD</para>
  +    <itemizedlist>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>This is an early version of <command>globus-url-sync</command>.  In the event 
  +		  that unexpected results are returned, please re-run the command with the 
  +		  <command>-verbose</command> option.</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>
  +		  If the source directory hierarchy contains directories not present in 
  +		  the destination directory hierarchy, <command>globus-url-copy</command> 
  +		  must be invoked with the <command>-cd</command> (create directory) option.
  +		</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>
  +		  Empty directories, anywhere in the source directory hierarchy, are not 
  +		  currently handled, and will not be mentioned in the list of files to be 
  +		  transferred using <command>globus-url-copy</command>.
  +		</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>
  +		  Performance may be slow until it's been optimized to take advantage of
  +		  some new GridFTP features.
  +		</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>
  +		  The <command>-modify</command> option:
  +		  <itemizedlist>
  +			<listitem>
  +			  <para>Timezones are not taken into account.</para>
  +			</listitem>
  +			<listitem>
  +			  <para>Timestamps are matched exactly, so files on systems that are not 
  +				time-synchronized will never match.</para>
  +			</listitem>
  +			<listitem>
  +			  <para>In the future an inexact matching feature may be added.</para>
  +			</listitem>
  +		  </itemizedlist>
  +		</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>
  +		  Authentication errors may be erroneously be reported as though a file is missing.
  +		</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	  <listitem>
  +		<para>
  +		  Order of options does not currently effect order in which matching 
  +		  criteria are evaluated.
  +		</para>
  +	  </listitem>
  +	</itemizedlist>
     </refsect1>
   </refentry>
   </reference>