[Swift-devel] gridftp issue in running oops swift script on queenbee

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:18 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Wenjun, can you try to run a simple script consisting of a single cat 
> command, to make it easy to see what Swift is doing on Queenbee?
> 
> It looks to me like something is acting strange in the interaction 
> between Swift and Queenbee's gridftp server.
> 
> Mihael: looking at the original logs I was perplexed to see that Swift 
> could create the remote directories but not remove them. Almost as if 
> the remove command was using a pathname that the grodftp server couldnt see.

That's because the creation is done by swift, on the head node (through
gridftp), and the removal is done by the wrapper, on the compute node.