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

[Kaushal M]

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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Toby.
>
> This is the correct way to do it and it should work.
>
> However, there was a bug reported earlier where the outputs of mount/df
> command showed the original server even when the backup server was used for
> gluster mounts. This bug doesn't happen anymore on the latest qa release.
>
> I believe you are testing with 3.3 beta 3. Could you check with the latest
> 3.3.0qa release (src tarball here
> http://bits.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-3.3.0qa39.tar.gz, no debs) and see if the problem still exists?
>
> Thanks,
> Kaushal
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Toby Corkindale <
> toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
>
>> 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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