[Gluster-users] Adding storage

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Thu Jan 29 20:30:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com>wrote:

> At 12:15 PM 1/29/2009, Sean Davis wrote:
>
>> A naive question, but how do people go about adding (or changing) storage
>> in a system?  In particular, how do folks change the client-vol file on an
>> operating cluster?  I would like to be able to do something like "remount"
>> and have client-vol changes work for a particular machine and not have to
>> search out all the open connections in order to do that update.  I know the
>> question is not a very good one, but any suggestions on how this works in
>> practice?
>>
>
> unfortunately, gluster doesn't support -o remount just yet.
> what I do is
>
> unmount/remount the filesystem.
> which is a tad inconvenient, but here's a script that was posted to the
> list a while ago to help find processes that are hanging on a mountpoint:
>
> --whodir--
> #!/bin/sh
> DIR=$1
> find /proc 2>/dev/null | grep -E 'cwd|exe' | xargs ls -l 2>/dev/null | grep
> "> $DIR" | sed 's/  */ /g' | cut -f8 -d' ' | cut -f3 -d/ | sort | uniq |
> while read line; do echo $line $(cat /proc/$line/cmdline); done
>

Thanks, Keith.  I had even archived that script in my email but promptly
forgot that I had done so.

We don't have many users, so that will probably work just fine.

Sean
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