I'm not aware of any issues preventing gzip from working correctly.

How are the files being gzipped? I just ran a gzip/gzip -d test on a 
small text file on a PVFS filesystem and it was successful. What are the 
file sizes you're working with?

Michael

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 08:52:40AM -0500, Chris Poultney wrote:
> All-
> 
> I'm running some third-party software that has an option to write output 
> files as plain text or as gzipped text files using zlib. Gzipped files 
> written to an ext4 partition are fine, but those written to the PVFS 
> volume are corrupt and unreadable by any of the gzip tools (the error 
> message is "not in gzip format"). Plain text output files are fine in 
> all cases.
> 
> Before I spent a lot of time digging through the third-party software 
> source and making some simple test code, has anyone else run into a 
> similar issue? I didn't find anything in the PVFS2 docs that seemed 
> relevant to this particular issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> -crispy
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