[Gluster-users] How to set backup volume server in mount options

Toby Corkindale toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au
Fri May 4 01:45:51 UTC 2012


On 04/05/12 11:35, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> Hi,
> I saw in the 3.3 changelog that now it is possible to set a secondary
> server to retrieve the volume information from, when mounting a volume
> via the native client.
>
> However... I can't find any documentation in the man pages explaining
> how to do this.
>
> Currently I have:
>
> mount -t glusterfs storage01:/testvol /mnt/somewhere
>
> I guess I need to add -o backup-volume=storage02 or something?

I dug this option out of the source code, *but it still doesn't work*:

mount -t glusterfs -o backupvolfile-server=storage02 storage01:/testvol 
/mnt/somewhere



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