Thanks Andrew for the quick reply, I had a look at the commits for the multi-part upload support for Azure blobs, will get a hint from it but that is not exactly what we were looking forward. I will get back to you with more crisp requirement if needed.
Thanks John for a detailed description & help. Regards, Kriti On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:12 AM, John Kew <john....@socrata.com> wrote: > Kriti; > > Unfortunately JClouds only supports block blobs larger than 64MB; not page > blobs [1]. This is mostly because support for large blob types was > initially written for managing large files like zip files; not the > random-seek VHD files which have to be aligned to 512 byte boundaries[2]. > > The work required to get page blobs in place is not technically hard; but > there may be a bit of work in making sure the JClouds API for azure blob > remains clean. > > Personally I'd be pretty interested in this support; but my work does not > have an immediate need for it. If you want to take a stab at it I would be > more than willing to help out. > > Also; if you just need to copy vhds between storage accounts you can use > the async copy API[3]. The only reason I mention this is that my company > has many VHDs which largely stay within Azure; but we had the need to move > them from storage account to storage account. You can do this with shared > access keys[4]. > > -John > > [1] Block vrs Page Blobs: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee691964.aspx > [2] Blob API: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee691975.aspx > [3] Copy API: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd894037.aspx > [4] Shared Access Keys: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee395415.aspx > > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Andrew Phillips <andr...@apache.org>wrote: > >> Hi Kriti >> >> Could you have a look at JCLOUDS-161 [1] and the related commits? Large >> blob should be supported on master and 1.6.2-incubating - which version(s) >> of jclouds are you using? >> >> Regards >> >> ap >> >> [1] >> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/JCLOUDS-161<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-161> >> >> >
