[Gluster-users] NFS - failing mounting subdir

[davide f]

I've just tried with the standard linux NFS server and it works also with NFSv3 (mount -o nfsvers=3 192.168.0.244:/tmp/subdir  /tmp/test/) so it's not a protocol problem; I think it's a gluster related issue.

Davide

--- Gio 11/11/10, Janne Aho <janne at citynetwork.se> ha scritto:

> Da: Janne Aho <janne at citynetwork.se>
> Oggetto: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS - failing mounting subdir
> A: "Stefano Baronio" <stefano.baronio at gmail.com>
> Cc: "davide f" <davidef1986 at yahoo.it>, gluster-users at gluster.org
> Data: Giovedì 11 novembre 2010, 10:53
> On 11/11/10 10:44, Stefano Baronio
> wrote:
> > 2010/11/11 davide f<davidef1986 at yahoo.it>
> > 
> >> I'm trying to setup gluster with nfs.If I mount
> the root directory of
> >> the share it works just fine, but (for various
> reasons) I need to mount only
> >> a subdir of that share (ex.  mount
> 192.168.0.181:/share/subdir
> >>   /mnt/gluster/) but it fails with
> "reason given by server: No such file or
> >> directory", that directory, of course, exists into
> the share.Any ideas on
> >> how to solve this problem ?
> >     I have the same problem..
> 
> As far as I can recall, glusterfs uses NFS3 and the mount
> point is the "root" directory, so the subdirectories won't
> be directly mountable, I think you need NFS4 to be able to
> do what you are thinking of.
> 
> A work around would be to mount the whole share to a
> location on the client which isn't accessible for all users
> and then bind the directory you wanted to mount to the
> location where you wanted.
> 
> Example for fstab:
> 192.168.0.1:/share /protected/share nfs
> noauto,nfsvers=3,rw,bg,hard,intr,async 0 0
> 
> /protected/share /reallocation none bind 0 0
> 
> 
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