[Gluster-devel] oddity with the mountpoint

[Daniel Maher]

After my initial success in removing the "Unify" block from my config,
i rebooted each machine in the test network (to get a nice fresh
start), and now i was unable to access the mountpoint properly.  Note
the following cut and paste from the user session on the client :



[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
total 0
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
ls: cannot access data: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access meta: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access textfile.txt: No such file or directory
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? data
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? meta
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? textfile.txt
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
total 0
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
total 0
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
total 0
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
ls: cannot access data: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access meta: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access textfile.txt: No such file or directory
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? data
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? meta
-????????? ? ? ? ?                ? textfile.txt
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
total 0
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# 


This condition remained for about 15 minutes.  On a whim, i entered the
"data" directory, and did an "ls" there - the contents of the directory
displayed as normal.  When i went back one level to the base
mountpoint, i did another "ls" :

[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# ls -l
total 24
drwx------ 102 root root 4096 2008-04-09 15:13 data
drwx------   2 root root 4096 2008-04-09 15:08 meta
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   80 2008-04-09 13:58 textfile.txt
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]# cat textfile.txt 
This is a text file !
[root at test-dma-38 gfs-mount]#


It would appear that entering the "data" sub-directory sort of "reset"
the mountpoint or something.  Very odd.

Any ideas ?


-- 
Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>