Todd, Could you please provide the glusterfs client and server volume files ? That will help us to look into the cpio issue. -- Cheers, Lakshmipathi.G ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:34:00 +0100 > From: Todd Daugherty <todd at veryheavy.se> > Subject: GlusterFS and Visual Effects > To: gluster-users at gluster.org > Message-ID: > ? ? ? ?<6a44b16d0912030234p6e126626qcfd42f1ab414e758 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 >