[Gluster-users] Client hangs on boot

[Pat Haley]

Hi,

We have a compute cluster running CentOS 6.2 (installed via
Rocks 6.0) which mounts a gluster filesystem (gluster 3.3.1).
To mount the gluster filesystem we included the following
line in /etc/fstab

mseas-data:/gdata       /gdata                   glusterfs defaults 
    0 0

The issue we're seeing now is that if we reboot the client with
this line present in /etc/fstab, the boot process hangs at
installing local filesystem.  If we comment this line out
of fstab we can boot successfully.  We can then uncomment
this line and mount the gluster filesystem.  Further, if we
maintain 2 other copyies of /etc/fstab (say /etc/fstab_boot
and /etc/fstab_gluster where neither fstab nor fstab_boot
have the gluster line, but fstab_gluster does) then adding
the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.d.local allows us to
boot and mount gluster at boot

/bin/cp -f /etc/fstab_gluster /etc/fstab
mount -a
/bin/cp -f /etc/fstab_boot /etc/fstab

This seem like an awful kludge.  Can someone suggest a
cleaner (and presumably more robust) solution?

Thanks.

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