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

[Keith Freedman]

why not look into editing /sbin/mount.glusterfs
if you're mounting through fstab or the mount command that seems the 
logical place to address this.


At 12:31 AM 3/10/2009, Enno Lange wrote:
>On Monday 09 March 2009 18:46:28 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner
>wrote:
> > why not use tmpfs and link /etc/mtab to tmpfs?
>This would actually give the same result: You can mount any glusterfs volume
>but they will not appear in <linkto>/mtab. Though, they will appear
>in /proc/mounts.
>This is somewhat tricky, as you wont't be able to unmount the volume
>gracefully.
>IMHO this is quite a disadvantage because for any (system-)diskless
>computation cluster this tricky situation comes up.
>
>Another workaround might be to replace /bin/mount with a script, which keeps
>the link <linkto>/mtab in sync with /proc/mounts. Will check on this soon.
>
>Enno
>
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