Comments on: Infinidisk Update http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/02/03/infinidisk-update/ The random things that spew forth from my brain... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24222 By: Bill Donahue http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/02/03/infinidisk-update/comment-page-1/#comment-5554 Bill Donahue Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:10:35 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/02/03/infinidisk-update/#comment-5554 I’m unable to reproduce any mv problem. All my tests pass. Are you sure you’re using the latest version? There have been several updates to S3InfiDisk, and you need to make sure you’re using the latest one. You can download it at:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/openfount/openfount-fuse-s3.zip

If you’re using the prebuilt EC2 instance, after you download it, copy it to /opt/s3infidisk and unzip it there.

Can you send an email to support@openfount.com so that we can process this properly? It’s difficult to do this through a blog reply.

]]> By: Bill Donahue http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/02/03/infinidisk-update/comment-page-1/#comment-5498 Bill Donahue Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:05:50 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/02/03/infinidisk-update/#comment-5498 My name is Bill Donahue, president of Openfount. First of all, thanks for using S3InfiDisk. If you provide your email address, I'll check to see why your presales question wasn't answered.

However, there are some misconceptions in your other comments. S3InfiDisk is still in beta. It is being used heavily by many customers, but there may by still be lingering bugs with some operations. We will check on the mv problem, and will resolve the issue immediately. All of our customers are happy, particularly with the speed with which we address any problems.

The comment about no databases working on top of S3InfiDisk is incorrect. S3InfiDisk uses FUSE. FUSE does not support a small subset of file operations that some applications need. For instance, FUSE does not support locking or certain mmap operations. InnoDB probably uses these operations, hence it will not work under any file system built with FUSE. To generalize from InnoDB to all databases is wrong. InnoDB is the exception, not the rule.

We have customers using rsync with S3InfiDisk in large environments. And since it's the real rsync, you get the entire rsync, not just what a vendor is willing to support in reinventing the wheel. Note that mv won't work with s3sync by definition – it's a much narrower product. Using a FUSE file sytem, like S3InfiDisk, is clearly an advantage in most cases.

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