[Pvfs2-developers] Could we set pvfs2 as the storage directory of a reverse proxy like deployed with nginx.

[Michael Moore]

After confirming the file system functions as Elaine mentioned I would next
confirm that the application isn't using system calls that are not
supported or have limited usability on PVFS2 such as locking or mmap.

Michael

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Elaine Quarles <elaine at omnibond.com> wrote:

> I don't have any experience with nginx or polygraph, but one question
> comes to mind. Did you test the installation of PVFS2 before you attempted
> to use it with these other tools? For example, did you run pvfs2-ping and
> pvfs2-cp as suggested in the installation guide? These help confirm that
> PVFS2 is configured properly.****
>
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> -- Elaine****
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> *From:* pvfs2-developers-bounces at beowulf-underground.org [mailto:
> pvfs2-developers-bounces at beowulf-underground.org] *On Behalf Of *masi
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:25 AM
> *To:* pvfs2
> *Subject:* [Pvfs2-developers] Could we set pvfs2 as the storage directory
> of a reverse proxy like deployed with nginx.****
>
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>
> Hello , everyone****
>
>      I am a newer to pvfs2 and recently I have a task to test the
> performance of pvfs2 under the environment of a reverse proxy.****
>
> The deployment is like this: Nginx is the reverse proxy and its storage
> directory  is a pvfs2 type , then I configure polygraph on another****
>
> machine to act both as the source server and the clients. ****
>
>      Now the problem is very triky: I could get the right reports from the
> client of polygraph when I take ext3 directory as the storage ****
>
> support of nginx. But the polygraph client just reports "premature end of
> msg body" error when I set pvfs2 as the support of nginx.****
>
>      So I wonder if anybody have ever tried  tests like this and if it is
> caused by special mechanism of pvfs2 file system.****
>
>      Thanks so much.****
>
> Regards,****
>
>      MaSi****
>
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