Re: xfs, fstab, glusterfs

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Dear All,

I've made much progress on the mounting side of things - glusterfs is  
now clustering perfectly my Debian sub-servers in my "head" Leopard  
xServe - but I was still unable to write to the mounted filesystem  
without errors/refusals, and I only recently understood why: my xServe  
is unable to read/write to an xfs filesystem that is mounted into the  
local userspace through macfuse.

I know that without macFuse on a Leopard server, glusterfs has "server- 
only" capabilities. I also read that it is possible to re-export a  
glusterfs cluster through nfs, which leopard is able to understand -  
but I read that (a non-kernel) Fuse is necessary to do this, yet if  
the filesystem is first mounted into the local userspace, Leopard  
won't be able to read it! Catch-22...

For the time being, the only solution I see is to redo my network  
architecture to make one of the Debian sub-servers the nfs exporter  
(instead of having the Debian servers clustered and mounted in the  
Leopard head server) - yet is it possible that a unique Debian server  
be both a client and server? This way I could have a Debian server  
cluster and NFS-export two other debian servers, at the same time as  
being part of another cluster mounted on another Debian server. Does  
this sound feasable?

Thanks, best,

Josef.