[Gluster-users] expanding volumes produce weird results

[Steve Wilson]

On 01/31/2011 02:03 PM, Graeme Davis wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 13:05 -0500, Craig Carl wrote:
>> >/  Samuele -
>> />/      You don't need to create a client vol file with 3.1. Please 
>> delete
>> />/  it from the clients and follow these instructions to mount -
>> />/  
>> http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Manually_Mounting_Volumes
>> />/
>> /
>> thanks,
>> but this then lead to a question: how can i provide to a client a pool
>> of server to use for ha without relying to hearbeat/rhcs or other
>> cluster suite ? i assumed - correct me if i'm wrong - that by using the
>> vol file client would be able to go to the next server if one was down .
>>
>> many thanks
>> Samuele
>
> I've come across this same issue (I was using vol files thinking they 
> would tell the client how to mount without relying on one hostname).
>
> For example, I have a test distributed-replicated cluster of 10 
> servers and 2 client set up.  If I have the client set up to "mount -t 
> glusterfs server1:/volume /mnt/volume" and I take down server1, 
> everything still works.  But if I try and mount server1 again (with 
> the above command) on another client it will complete the mount 
> command but then just sit there and hang the machine if you try and do 
> df or cd into /mnt/volume.
>
> Basically I want to have a reliable way of mounting from clients just 
> in case a machine tries to mount a Gluster volume when one of the 
> servers in the cluster is down.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graeme

This is pretty basic but it works for me.  I've written a script to do 
the mount for me.  It will first test if a server is running before 
attempting a mount from that server.  If the server isn't running, it 
will go on to the next server in the list.  Here's the main part of the 
script:

    server_list="server1 server2"
    test_port=24007

    # Check if something is already mounted at this mount point.
    mountpoint -q /mnt/volume
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
         for server in $server_list; do
             # Test if the server is responding on the first Gluster TCP
    port
             netcat -z $server $test_port
             if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                 mount -tglusterfs $server:/volume /mnt/volume
                 break
             fi
         done
    fi



Steve