[Gluster-devel] Hard mounts?

[Anand Avati]

Martin,
 we might introduce this in 1.4.x, where will have the right framework to
re-open a file reliably after a reconnect (immune to renames and
recreations).

avati

2008/2/17, Martin Fick <mogulguy at yahoo.com>:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I just discovered glusterfs recently, which kind of
> puzzles me, why haven't I heard of it before?  I have
> looked for something like it for quite a while now!
> Much about glusterfs just seems more "correct" than
> many other solutions.  It seems more scalable, and I
> mean that in both ways, up and down.  Many of the
> other solutions neglect the down part.
>
> Anyway, I have a question.  Is there anyway to make a
> glusterfs mount be "hard" the way that nfs filesystems
> can be mounted "hard"?  I would like a process to
> block if the server is down until the server returns.
> Currently if I run a "ls" on filesystem when the
> server is down I get:
>
> ls: /music: Transport endpoint is not connected
>
> If this is not currently possible, is it in the
> "works"/plan?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Martin
>
>
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