[Gluster-devel] xfs, fstab, glusterfs

[admin at matphot.com]

Dear All,

I'm afraid I'm a bit new to this. I hope I'm not missing the obvious,  
but in all the documentation I can't seem to find a clear answer to my  
problem.

I have a head server (Leopard X serve) that will be used as a mount  
point for four sub-servers (Debian Etch) that each have two SATA RAID  
5 blocks running an XFS filesystem.

Before I switched to glusterfs, I would do an NFS export (/etc/ 
exports) of the XFS filesystem mounted in /etc/fstab. I have since  
cancelled (commented out) the NFS export, but I am not quite sure what  
to do about the fstab: Should I mount the drives using this file, then  
export the filesystem using glusterfs? Or should it be glusterfs doing  
the mounting? What role does FUSE have in the mount operation?

The RAID drives are at /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, and their filesystems  
are accessible at /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 - should I be mounting these  
with glusterfs (instead of mounting them to a folder in the server  
root as I am doing presently)?

With my present configuration, all works correctly if I mount the raid  
drives individually, yet when I mirror two drives across two servers  
using AFS things get wonky - I can upload files to a folder (and see  
that they have indeed been replicated to both drives), yet I am unable  
to create a new folder (it becomes an inaccessible icon).

Thank you for any advice.

Best,

J.M. Schomburg.