[Swift-devel] Re: plan for 0.5 release

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 07:14 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Mihael, Ben,
> 
> How well do you understand the problem and whats your confidence in 
> being able to reliably fix it?
> 
> It seems best to disable it (or adjust things) to get more reliable 
> operation across all or more sites, at the expense of performance on 
> some sites, while its being fixed.
> 
> Mihael, is this bug on your plate? 

Yes.

> Whats your estimate of effort involved?

This was discussed before. In the bigger context of the
small-file-optimization there is one week of real time left.

> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/3/08 4:22 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 06:27 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> >>> Can you explain a bit more about the "data channel doesn't work for a bunch of
> >>> sites" problem?
> >> There's some channel reuse code that went into cog in the past few months. 
> >> It gets enabled when it detects that it has been pointed at a specific 
> >> version of the GridFTP server (which is in itself a bug as it should 
> >> really work for lots of versions).
> > 
> > Not quite. I've put that in precisely because some versions didn't work.
> > 
> >>  The code appears to not work. So when 
> >> Swift is pointed at a gridftp server of that version, it cannot stage in 
> >> or out files. When it is pointed at a different version gridftp server, 
> >> the two bugs cancel each other out - data channel reuse is not used, and 
> >> so Swift can stage files in and out.
> >>
> > 
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