[Gluster-devel] oddity with the mountpoint

[Anand Avati]

Daniel,
 please send the client logs from that session.

avati

2008/4/9, Daniel Maher <dma+gluster at witbe.net <dma%2Bgluster at witbe.net>>:
>
> 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>
>
>
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