Hi, Keith Freedman wrote: > 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. The idea would be to copy /proc/mounts to a local filesystem, to which /etc/mtab points. After mount succeeded, you have to relink the link to /proc/mounts..... 1. /etc/mtab -> /<tmpfs>/mymtab -> /proc/mounts 2. rm /<tmpfs>/mymtab 3. cp /proc/mounts /<tmpfs>/mymtab (creating an empty file should be sufficient...) 4. mount glusterfs volume 5. rm /<tmpfs>/mymtab 6. ln -s /proc/mounts /<tmpfs>/mymtab All these steps should can be implemented in a fail save way in /sbin/mount.glusterfs Cheers Enno > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
