Cvmfs

Any remote site can mount the cvmfs partition over the network and we recommend that you do that rather than using the procedures described here. For policy reasons that may not always be possible, which is why these prodcedures exist. If you choose to use cvmfs, you can size your local cache so that everything you normally use will sit in the cache. Therefore you pay network latency only on the first use of any new ups product; on subsequent uses the products are cached locally. Therefore it is possible to work on your laptop even when it is not connected to a network.