Hi Bruce

Thanks for reporting your findings. Do you mind writing a page on the wiki [1] 
about your experiences ?

Thanks
Felix

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING

> Am 11.12.2014 um 08:49 schrieb Bruce Edge <[email protected]>:
> 
> Found the problem. It was the Linux WebDAV driver. Further experimentation 
> from the shell with a WebDAV mount showed flawless operation from OS X for a 
> variety of file sizes and load, while the Linux WebDAV driver (davfs2 version 
> 1.4.6-1ubuntu3) mount exhibited the same problems I’ve been having from my 
> OSGI thread.
> 
> I tried switched from using davfs2, e.g.:
> mount -t davfs -o gid=sling,rw,uid=sling,username=admin  
> http://localhost:8090 /mnt/jcr
> to using fusedav:
> fusedav -p=admin -u=admin http://localhost:8090 /mnt/jcr
> 
> and the problems ceased, however the fusedav driver lacked many of the 
> options provided by davfs2. A bit more digging yielded a new davfs2 version 
> based on the new libneon27 WebDAV API [1]:
> 
> Installing the newer davfs2 package, 1.5.2-1, as well as disabling locks in  
> /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf also fixed the problem. This is preferable to the 
> fusedav option as davfs2 has considerably more functionality and options than 
> fusedav.
> 
> WebDAV I/O is now reliable. Have been running load testing for hours now with 
> no errors.
> 
> Thanks again for the pointers Bertrand.
> 
> [1]  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/davfs2
> 
> -Bruce
> 
> From: Bertrand Delacretaz 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Reply-To: users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 1:10 AM
> To: users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: WebDAV write problems, loses files with no error, no consistency
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Bruce Edge
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I¹m not seeing all the files I¹m writing out to webdav from a bundle
> thread and I¹m losing files....
> 
> To reformulate, IIUC you are running java code that only works with
> File objects, and those are actually stored in Sling's JCR repository
> because your code works on a WebDAV mounted folder?
> 
> If yes, I would stop (in a debugger) when detecting a failure, and
> examine the Sling repository at this to see exactly which nodes/files
> were created and what their state is. I suspect there might be name
> collisions which mean the JCR content is not what you expect. Or
> worse, concurrency issues, but our WebDAV stuff is fairly stable and
> well tested code so it would be surprising to discover this now.
> 
> Doing this processing inside Sling, accessing the data via JCR is
> probably more efficient - but you're right that this should also work
> under WebDAV.
> 
> It's hard to debug your code by reading it here, if you can reduce to
> the smallest thing that fails we might be able to help better.
> 
> -Bertrand
> 

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