[Gluster-users] Mount point problem

rhubbell rhubbell at ihubbell.com
Sat Nov 22 22:58:00 UTC 2008


Why not change the perms on the mount-point?

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 16:35 -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> I just had to deal with a situation where a glusterfs filesystem would 
> not mount because someone had managed to create some files and 
> directories under the mount point.  Perhaps this behavior is 
> intentional, but I would prefer that it work like NFS and just 
> overmount.  When bringing a cluster down and back up, it is quite 
> possible for overeager users to log in and start working before 
> everything is up.
> 
> In addition the error message was unhelpful:
> 
> -bash-3.2# glusterfs --server fs01 /data --volume-name=data
> glusterfs: could not open specfile
> 
> -- Matt






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