Bug 3987

Summary: Support for multiple sources and partial file transfers.
Product: RFT Reporter: Ravi Madduri <madduri@mcs.anl.gov>
Component: RoadmapAssignee: Ravi Madduri <madduri@mcs.anl.gov>
Status: NEW    
Severity: normal CC: madduri@mcs.anl.gov
Priority: P3    
Version: development   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: All   

Description From 2005-12-05 10:34:35 
A file can be located in more then one site. Users should be able to list all
the sites in which the file is 
available. Two scenarios are possible here:
1. RFT can get a portion of file from each site
2. RFT tries to get a file from one site and if that fails get it from the next
site in the list.

Adding partial file transfer capabilities to RFT will make a high-level service
invoke RFT to get a portion of 
file from a site.
------- Comment #1 From 2005-12-05 11:16:44 ------- 
Why is this important ? : This will provide sufficient "hooks" in RFT for a
high-level service to provide data 
transfer solution that reflects a more wide-spread usage scenario in scientific
communities where data is 
available in more than one place.

Interested Users: None