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 > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
