The good folks at Side Effects pointed me in a direction that makes the software work. The environment varible HOUDINI_BUFFEREDSAVE fixes all. Houdini files are cpio files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpio) So it is my guess that cpio files do not work on GlusterFS. I will do some more testing once time allows but it would interesting to know what other have found in this area. Todd On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Todd Daugherty <todd at veryheavy.se> wrote: > I have created a file via Houdini (http://www.sidefx.com/). To a > glusterfs cluster. (2.0.8) I created the same file to the local hard > drive. The file created to the local hard drive works. The file > created to the glusterfs cluster does not. > > The md5sum binary checksums of the files are different. The md5sum > ascii checksums are the the same. > > I have straces of both processes and I am interested in any feedback > that is possible on this topic. I have posted here before about other > Visual Effects tools having similar problems. (Rendermans PTFilter, > 3Dlights tdlmake) So there is something that this software is doing > that goes not work with glusterfs. > > When the Glusterfs volume is exported via NFS or CIFS this problem is > not present. It is only when using the GlusterFS native client. > > Todd >
