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Chapter 19. Moving the pnfs Data from GDBM to PostgreSQL

Vladimir Podstavkov

Mathias de Riese

Table of Contents

Preliminaries and Preparations
Checking the GDBM Database Files
Updating the pnfs Software
Conversion of the Databases
Testing the Converted Databases

From version 1.6.6 of dCache the distribution contains a version of the pnfs server which uses a PostgreSQL database to store the namespace information instead of gdbm database files. The following guide will aid in updating to this server and converting the data from the gdbm files to the PostgreSQL database.

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