[Swift-devel] Re: coaster features

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Mon May 18 14:39:31 CDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 14:08 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> >>>       
> >> This is the "<filesystem provider="coaster" url="gt2://grid.myhost.org" 
> >> />" from http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/userguide/coasters.php.
> >>     
> >
> > Right. The coaster fs provider. Glen found some data corruption with it
> > when transferring files larger than a few KB. So it's only somewhat
> > working.
> >   
> Has this feature been fixed?

No.

>  I found it again in my data movement test 
> on OSG site.

Can you be more specific?

In general "feature X doesn't work properly" is not very useful. I
recommend reading this:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html




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