why not look into editing /sbin/mount.glusterfs if you're mounting through fstab or the mount command that seems the logical place to address this. At 12:31 AM 3/10/2009, Enno Lange wrote: >On Monday 09 March 2009 18:46:28 Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner >wrote: > > why not use tmpfs and link /etc/mtab to tmpfs? >This would actually give the same result: You can mount any glusterfs volume >but they will not appear in <linkto>/mtab. Though, they will appear >in /proc/mounts. >This is somewhat tricky, as you wont't be able to unmount the volume >gracefully. >IMHO this is quite a disadvantage because for any (system-)diskless >computation cluster this tricky situation comes up. > >Another workaround might be to replace /bin/mount with a script, which keeps >the link <linkto>/mtab in sync with /proc/mounts. Will check on this soon. > >Enno > >-- >Dipl.-Ing. Enno Lange, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter >Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen >Lehrstuhl fuer Elektromagnetische Energiewandlung >RWTH Aachen, Schinkelstr. 4, D-52056 Aachen >Tel. +49 241 80 97644, Fax +49 241 80 92270 > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
