What is the RLS?
The replica location service (RLS) maintains and provides access to mapping information from logical names for data items to target names. These target names may represent physical locations of data items, or an entry in the RLS may map to another level of logical naming for the data item. The RLS is not intended to provide data storage, data transfer or other replication services. Additional replication services (outside of the scope of the RLS) are required to physically replicate files, to provide consistency guarantees between entries relating to physical files, and to maintain metadata pertaining to logical or target names. The RLS is a component of the Globus Toolkit and runs as a server on most Linux and UNIX platforms.
