Why not change the perms on the mount-point? On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 16:35 -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote: > I just had to deal with a situation where a glusterfs filesystem would > not mount because someone had managed to create some files and > directories under the mount point. Perhaps this behavior is > intentional, but I would prefer that it work like NFS and just > overmount. When bringing a cluster down and back up, it is quite > possible for overeager users to log in and start working before > everything is up. > > In addition the error message was unhelpful: > > -bash-3.2# glusterfs --server fs01 /data --volume-name=data > glusterfs: could not open specfile > > -- Matt