> Problem #1: initial "timeout"/lag-time with auto-mounting... > i have added GlusterFS mounts into my AutoFS configuration... > (directly modelling after the example on the GlusterFS site) > and the result is completely successful, with one single > continual irritation... whenever a remote mount is initially > requested... instead of actually finishing the request before > returning, it seems there is a "long" latency (but probably less > than a second) period before the remote filesystem is actually > available... and an immediate request for access to a file/dir > (i.e. ls(1), or opening a file on an unmounted filesystem directly) > will result in (for example): > > ls: <mountpoint>: Transport endpoint is not connected GlusterFS puts the best effort at being non blocking. But with recent discussions we may make this optional at the protocol level. > Problem #2: this one is strange... i have noticed that OpenOffice > (versions 2.0.4 and 2.3.0, at least, on CentOS 4 and 5 respectively) > fail to open files on GlusterFS mounts... instead returning the > following error: > > General input/output error while accessing <filename> Is there anything in the logs of glusterfs at the time of this error? avati
