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The Space Reservation
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The Space Reservation

Before you can create a WriteToken tag you need to have a space reservation.

Space reservations are made for link groups. The file LinkGroupAuthorization.conf needs to contain the link groups that can be used for space reservations. You need to specify the location of the file in the /etc/dcache/dcache.conf file. 

spacemanager.authz.link-group-file-name=/etc/dcache/LinkGroupAuthorization.conf

Example:

In this example we will create the link group WriteTokenLinkGroup. Login to the admin interface, cd to the SrmSpaceManager and list the current space reservations. 

(local) admin > cd SrmSpaceManager
(SrmSpaceManager) admin > ls
Reservations:
total number of reservations: 0
total number of bytes reserved: 0

LinkGroups:
total number of linkGroups: 0
total number of bytes reservable: 0
total number of bytes reserved  : 0
last time all link groups were updated: Wed Aug 07 15:20:48 CEST 2013(1375881648312)

Currently there are no space reservations and no link groups. We create the link group WriteTokenLinkGroup. 

(SrmSpaceManager) admin > ..
(local) admin > cd PoolManager
(PoolManager) admin > psu create pgroup WriteToken_poolGroup
(PoolManager) admin > psu addto pgroup WriteToken_poolGroup pool1
(PoolManager) admin > psu removefrom pgroup default pool1
(PoolManager) admin > psu create link WriteToken_Link any-store world-net any-protocol
(PoolManager) admin > psu set link WriteToken_Link -readpref=10 -writepref=10 -cachepref=0 -p2ppref=-1
(PoolManager) admin > psu add link WriteToken_Link WriteToken_poolGroup
(PoolManager) admin > psu create linkGroup WriteToken_LinkGroup
(PoolManager) admin > psu set linkGroup custodialAllowed WriteToken_LinkGroup true
(PoolManager) admin > psu set linkGroup replicaAllowed WriteToken_LinkGroup true
(PoolManager) admin > psu set linkGroup nearlineAllowed WriteToken_LinkGroup true
(PoolManager) admin > psu set linkGroup onlineAllowed WriteToken_LinkGroup true
(PoolManager) admin > psu addto linkGroup WriteToken_LinkGroup WriteToken_Link
(PoolManager) admin > save
(PoolManager) admin > ..
(local) admin >

(local) admin >cd SrmSpaceManager
(SrmSpaceManager) admin > ls
Reservations:
total number of reservations: 0
total number of bytes reserved: 0

LinkGroups:
0 Name:WriteToken_LinkGroup FreeSpace:6917935104 ReservedSpace:0 AvailableSpace:6917935104 VOs: onlineAllowed:true nearlineAllowed:true replicaAllowed:true custodialAllowed:true outputAllowed:true UpdateTime:Wed Aug 07 15:42:03 CEST 2013(1375882923234)
total number of linkGroups: 1
total number of bytes reservable: 6917935104
total number of bytes reserved  : 0
last time all link groups were updated: Wed Aug 07 15:42:03 CEST 2013(1375882923234)

A space reservation can only be made, when there is a link group in the LinkGroupAuthorization.conf that can be used for the space reservation. Therefore, we configure the LinkGroupAuthorization.conf such that the link group WriteToken_LinkGroup can be used. 

#SpaceManagerLinkGroupAuthorizationFile
# this is comment and is ignored

LinkGroup WriteToken_LinkGroup
*/Role=*

Now we can make a space reservation for that link group. 

(SrmSpaceManager) admin > reserve -desc=WriteToken 6000000 10000
10000 voGroup:null voRole:null retentionPolicy:CUSTODIAL accessLatency:ONLINE linkGroupId:0 size:6000000 created:Fri Aug 09 12:28:18 CEST 2013 lifetime:10000000ms expiration:Fri Aug 09 15:14:58 CEST 2013 description:WriteToken state:RESERVED used:0 allocated:0 

(SrmSpaceManager) admin > ls
Reservations:
10000 voGroup:null voRole:null retentionPolicy:CUSTODIAL accessLatency:ONLINE linkGroupId:0 size:6000000 created:Fri Aug 09 12:26:26 CEST 2013 lifetime:10000000ms expiration:Fri Aug 09 15:13:06 CEST 2013 description:WriteToken state:RESERVED used:0 allocated:0 
total number of reservations: 1
total number of bytes reserved: 6000000

LinkGroups:
0 Name:WriteToken_LinkGroup FreeSpace:6917849088 ReservedSpace:6000000 AvailableSpace:6911849088 VOs:{*:*} onlineAllowed:true nearlineAllowed:true replicaAllowed:true custodialAllowed:true outputAllowed:true UpdateTime:Fri Aug 09 12:25:57 CEST 2013(1376043957179)
total number of linkGroups: 1
total number of bytes reservable: 6911849088
total number of bytes reserved  : 6000000
(SrmSpaceManager) admin >

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