Gluster users - Jul 2009 - GlusterFS Failing to write Maya/Renderman Studio Pointcloud files

I have a 4 node cluster in test production and this is quite the problem.

Linux Fedora 10/11 client Fuse 2.74 Gluster 2.0.3
Gentoo 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 server Gluster 2.0.3

When mounted native the filesystem does not complete the writing of
Point Cloud files. When mounted via CIFS (glusterfs exported via
Samba) it writes the files.

I started an strace of the process but it crashed. Too many steps
before it actually gets to the Point Cloud generation. Renderman
Studio runs via Maya so that is VERY slow on the strace as well.

Any ideas of how to solve this problem?

Everything thing else is working. Had a problem with Houdini Mantra in
Gluster 2.0.1 that was fixed with an upgrade to 2.0.3. I was hoping
2.0.4 would fix this problem but no dice.

Todd

Hi Todd,

     Could you provide us with your volume configuration files and log files
for both server and client?.  Also can you please file a bug report with
these at http://bugs.gluster.com/

Thanks
--
Harshavardhana
Gluster - http://www.gluster.com


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Todd Daugherty <todd at truthout.org>
wrote:
> I have a 4 node cluster in test production and this is quite the problem.
>
> Linux Fedora 10/11 client Fuse 2.74 Gluster 2.0.3
> Gentoo 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 server Gluster 2.0.3
>
> When mounted native the filesystem does not complete the writing of
> Point Cloud files. When mounted via CIFS (glusterfs exported via
> Samba) it writes the files.
>
> I started an strace of the process but it crashed. Too many steps
> before it actually gets to the Point Cloud generation. Renderman
> Studio runs via Maya so that is VERY slow on the strace as well.
>
> Any ideas of how to solve this problem?
>
> Everything thing else is working. Had a problem with Houdini Mantra in
> Gluster 2.0.1 that was fixed with an upgrade to 2.0.3. I was hoping
> 2.0.4 would fix this problem but no dice.
>
> Todd
>
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>

> I have a 4 node cluster in test production and this is quite the problem.
>
> Linux Fedora 10/11 client Fuse 2.74 Gluster 2.0.3
> Gentoo 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 server Gluster 2.0.3
>
> When mounted native the filesystem does not complete the writing of
> Point Cloud files. When mounted via CIFS (glusterfs exported via
> Samba) it writes the files.
>
> I started an strace of the process but it crashed. Too many steps
> before it actually gets to the Point Cloud generation. Renderman
> Studio runs via Maya so that is VERY slow on the strace as well.
>
> Any ideas of how to solve this problem?
>
> Everything thing else is working. Had a problem with Houdini Mantra in
> Gluster 2.0.1 that was fixed with an upgrade to 2.0.3. I was hoping
> 2.0.4 would fix this problem but no dice.
Can you try mounting glusterfs with --disable-direct-io-mode and see
if that has any effect?

Avati