[Gluster-users] Problem mounting Gluster 3.1 with NFS

George L. Emigh george.emigh at dialecticnet.com
Thu Dec 16 19:27:47 UTC 2010


Since I was interested in mounting a subdirectory of the volume as well I 
thought I would ask if there would be any problem using mount -o bind to mount 
the volume subdirectories in the desired locations after mounting the volume 
in a generic location?

On Thursday December 16 2010, Christian Fischer wrote:
  > On Friday 10 December 2010 16:58:03 Jacob Shucart wrote:
  > > Hello,
  > > 
  > > Gluster 3.1.1 does not support mounting a subdirectory of the volume.
  > > This is going to be changed in the next release.  For now, you could
  > > mount 192.168.1.88:/raid, but not /raid/nfstest.
  > 
  > What is the 'next release' from your point of view?
  > 3.1.2qa2 does not support mounting a subdirectory.
  > 
  > Christian
  > 
  > > -Jacob
  > > 
  > > -----Original Message-----
  > > From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
  > > [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Joe Landman
  > > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:45 AM
  > > To: gluster-users at gluster.org
  > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Problem mounting Gluster 3.1 with NFS
  > > 
  > > On 12/10/2010 10:42 AM, Thomas Riske wrote:
  > > > Hello,
  > > > 
  > > > I tried to NFS-mount a gluster-volume using the "normal NFS-way" with
  > > > the directory-path:
  > > > 
  > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.88:/raid/nfstest /mnt/testmount
  > > > 
  > > > This gives me only the following error message:
  > > > 
  > > > mount.nfs: mounting 192.168.1.88:/raid/nfstest failed, reason given
  > > > by server: No such file or directory
  > > 
  > > [...]
  > > 
  > > > Is this a bug in gluster, or am I missing something here?
  > > > 
  > > > Mounting the Gluster-volume with the volume-name over NFS works...
  > > > (mount -t nfs 192.168.1.88:/test-nfs /mnt/testmount)
  > > 
  > > If you created the volume with a name of test-nfs, then thats what
  > > should show up in your exports
  > > 
  > > 	showmount -e 192.168.1.88
  > 
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George L. Emigh



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