[Gluster-users] Getting ERROR: parsing the volfile failed (No such file or directory) when starting glusterd on Fedora 19

[Greg Scott]

Drilling down into this error  - here is how to reproduce the problem at will.  Just start glusterfsd by hand the same way the automated startup scripts fire it up:

[root at chicago-fw2 system]# /usr/sbin/glusterfsd
[2013-07-07 18:33:17.706469] C [glusterfsd.c:1374:parse_cmdline] 0-glusterfs: ERROR: parsing the volfile failed (No such file or directory)

USAGE: /usr/sbin/glusterfsd [options] [mountpoint]
[root at chicago-fw2 system]#

I took this from /usr/lib/systemd/system/glusterfsd.  It looks like glusterd in turn starts up glusterfsd, which then blows up with the error above.  What's the difference between glusterd and glusterfsd?  And I wonder if the startup sequence is supposed to pass glusterfsd the location of this vol file?  

If I do:
/usr/sbin/glusterfsd --help

I see:

[root at chicago-fw2 system]# /usr/sbin/glusterfsd --help
Usage: glusterfsd [OPTION...] --volfile-server=SERVER [MOUNT-POINT]
  or:  glusterfsd [OPTION...] --volfile=VOLFILE [MOUNT-POINT]

 Basic options:
  -f, --volfile=VOLFILE      File to use as VOLUME_FILE.
.
.

So glusterfsd has a provision to accept the location of this volfile.  I wonder why /usr/lib/systemd/system/glusterfsd doesn't specify it? Or for that matter, is this an expected error and I don't need to worry about it?

 - Greg Scott