ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Filesystem API

The filesystem API from ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology — 23 operation(s) for filesystem.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 23

POST /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/upload Post Upload #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/download Post Download #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/mv Move Mv #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/cp Post Cp #
DELETE /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/rm Delete Rm #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/compress Compress #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/transfer/extract Extract #
PUT /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/chmod Put Chmod #
PUT /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/chown Put Chown #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/ls Get Ls #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/head Get Head #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/view Get View #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/tail Get Tail #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/checksum Get Checksum #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/file Get File #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/stat Get Stat #
DELETE /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/rm Delete Rm #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/mkdir Post Mkdir #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/symlink Post Symlink #
GET /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/download Get Download #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/upload Post Upload #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/compress Post Compress #
POST /filesystem/{system_name}/ops/extract Post Extract #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.cscs.ch/access/firecrest/
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APIReference
https://eth-cscs.github.io/firecrest-v2/openapi/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eth-zurich/refs/heads/main/openapi/eth-zurich-filesystem-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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SourceCode
https://github.com/eth-cscs/firecrest-v2

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OpenAPI Specification

eth-zurich-filesystem-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FirecREST Filesystem API
  version: 2.5.6
servers:
- url: https://api.cscs.ch/hpc/firecrest/v2
  description: HPCp Environment
tags:


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