Hello,

I have been following the “Blob Upload for Batch Processing” directions with some success in development, but I have run into a very severe problem when attempting to use it in a production configuration in a two-node cluster.

I believe the root of the problem is described in that documentation. “The files attached to the batch are stored on a temporary disk storage (inside java.io.tmp) until the batch is executed or dropped.” – this means that batch-uploaded files are only available on the original node. So given the following configuration:

• nuxeo-lb.example.com load balancer
• nuxeo-a.example.com node A
• nuxeo-b.example.com node B

If one uses nuxeo-lb.example.com to access the batch processing and document modification API as documented, then one is quite likely to upload the file to node-a.example.com and attempt to use it from node-b.example.com, which results in an error because node-b.example.com does not have access to that file.

As a temporary workaround we can directly use the nuxeo-a.example.com address for everything, but this is certainly not an ideal solution. What else can we do? We are using S3 binary storage on an EC2 instance, so sharing a directory isn't quite as straightforward as a shared NFS mount, and it's not even clear that java.io.tmp should be shared anyway.