[Gluster-users] dual mount?

[Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov]

gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org wrote on 12/06/2011 12:30:54 PM:

>
> I'm wondering is it safe to mount my gluster volume using the native
> gluster client and nfs from the same client machine?
>
> Example from one client machine do
>
> mount -o rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3 fs1:/GFS /gfs-nfs
> mount -t glusterfs fs1:/GFS /gfs
>
> and then access both mount points simultaneously. Is that ok to do and
safe?

I don't know if its recommended, but I've done it a bit with no noticable
problems (mainly for testing purposes) and in theory its just two different
clients accessing the volume which is designed to support multiple clients,
so should be fine.

-greg