[Gluster-users] Why can't a glusterfs share be mounted with one gluster server?

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 08/27/2015 04:44 PM, Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
> I have two gluster servers installed on seperate machines. The function as
> failover and I do mount on each machine with the coresponding gluster
> client. This only seems to work if both gluster servers are live.
Does mount fail here? If so, what does the mount log indicate? Do you
see any error logs?
Given that you haven't enabled quorum, I do not see any reason why it
shouldn't work.
> 
> It seems that something is misconfigured or misunderstood by myself how
> gluster works.
> 
> This is my configuration of the volume:
> 
> user at xnode1:~$ sudo mount gs1:/volume1 /data/nfs/
> ^Cuser at xnode1:~$ sudo gluster volume info
> 
> Volume Name: volume1
> Type: Replicate
> Volume ID: 92d9adb8-756b-4138-87a8-23237d21688f
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: gs1:/data/gluster/brick
> Brick2: gs2:/data/gluster/brick
> Options Reconfigured:
> performance.readdir-ahead: on
> performance.cache-size: 256MB
> server.allow-insecure: on
> performance.io-thread-count: 16
> performance.client-io-threads: on
> 
> Brick1 is on the same site as the running gluster-server.
> 
> Why do I need to have Brick2 online? It is configured in replication mode.
> 
> 
> 
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