[Gluster-users] mounting glusterfs on /etc/mtab read only

[Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner]

why not use tmpfs and link /etc/mtab to tmpfs?


Harshavardhana schrieb:
> Hi Enno,
> 
>      Currently there is no such option, we will add it under development
> roadmap.
> 


> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Enno Lange
> <Enno.Lange at iem.rwth-aachen.de <mailto:Enno.Lange at iem.rwth-aachen.de>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     we running a cluster of diskless gentoo-systems. Therefore,
>     /etc/mtab is linked to /proc/mounts as usual. Trying to mount a
>     glusterfs fails because mtab is not writable. Is there by any chance
>     a way to pass '-n' or something equivalent to the underlying mount
>     -t fuse process?
> 
>     The actual workaround we deployed is to link /etc/mtab to a local
>     file on a scratch partition, which in my opinion is quite
>     unsatisfying: The mount process will succeed but the mounted fs will
>     not appear in the linked /etc/mtab.
> 


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