A little birdy told me that Anand Avati said: ] > 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? well... i think i've solved this one... i'd like to thank Filipe Maia for mentioning the extra locking feature translator needed to be active for POSIX locking to work... i remembered the volume i was checking was a raw posix storage volume... i reconfigured the volume behind a posix-locks translator and this problem cleared up completely... so, this reduces my problem count to the same non-blocking issue that a lot of others have run into, and which has already been addressed and discussed as a likely future development... B. Karhan simon at pop.psu.edu PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator
