[Pvfs2-users] Problems with basic distribution (with xattrs)

[Tony Kew]

Dear PVFS users list,

Mounting a pvfs 7.2.1, creating directories and setting the distribution
type with setfattr for each directory, only simple_stipe and twod_stripe
would allow me to write a file in the given directory.

Adding the varstrip_dist xattrs patch from Murali Vilayannur attached to
this message thread:

    http://osdir.com/ml/file-systems.pvfs2.users/2007-01/msg00050.html

fixes the variable strip distibution, but the basic distribution still
doesn't work for me.

The patch adds

    #include "pvfs2-dist-basic.h

to src/client/sysint/sys-create.sm so I wonder if no one has tried 
this...???
Perhaps there is a little more code needed to make basic_dist work with
xargs?

The patch above is against 2.6, but works (and is needed for varstrip_dist
with xargs) with 7.2.1  & the latest cvs (best I can tell) - perhaps 
this patch
could be added to both?

Let me know if there is useful debug info I can provide...


Thanks Much
Tony

Tony Kew
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