[Gluster-users] couple separate issues: automounting and OpenOffice

[Anand Avati]

> Problem #1: initial "timeout"/lag-time with auto-mounting...
>   i have added GlusterFS mounts into my AutoFS configuration...
>   (directly modelling after the example on the GlusterFS site)
>   and the result is completely successful, with one single
>   continual irritation... whenever a remote mount is initially
>   requested... instead of actually finishing the request before
>   returning, it seems there is a "long" latency (but probably less
>   than a second) period before the remote filesystem is actually
>   available... and an immediate request for access to a file/dir
>   (i.e. ls(1), or opening a file on an unmounted filesystem directly)
>   will result in (for example):
>
>        ls: <mountpoint>: Transport endpoint is not connected

GlusterFS puts the best effort at being non blocking. But with recent
discussions we may make this optional at the protocol level.


> Problem #2: this one is strange... i have noticed that OpenOffice
>   (versions 2.0.4 and 2.3.0, at least, on CentOS 4 and 5 respectively)
>   fail to open files on GlusterFS mounts... instead returning the
>   following error:
>
>        General input/output error while accessing <filename>

Is there anything in the logs of glusterfs at the time of this error?

avati