Hi Matt, Is the volume specfication file present on the server? The default path is <CONFDIR>/glusterfs.vol. This is overridden by the path given in client-volume-filename option in server configuration. regards, On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Matt Lawrence <matt.lawrence at tamu.edu>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 > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Raghavendra G -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20081124/aac27238/attachment.htm