James -
Gluster supports the *nix standard method of automounting NFS
mounts. You will need to update /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc and
restart the autofs service. After that whenever a user or process
attempts to access the directory it will be mounted in the background.
Some CentOS documentation -
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-client-config-autofs.html
Thanks,
Craig
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Craig Carl
Senior Systems Engineer
Gluster
On 11/19/2010 12:25 PM, Burnash, James wrote:
> Hi Jacob.
>
> The link you gave me was the page I was referring to in my post - that's not what I need in terms of function or configuration, so no help to me, unfortunately.
>
> What I'm asking for is - what do I need to do on the client to automount a Gluster NFS share without specifically mounting it using the mount command - but instead using /net/<brickname>/<sharename> syntax to automount and access the directory.
>
> This is a crucial part of the client configuration, and cannot be changed in our current environment.
>
> Any further help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Burnash, Unix Engineering
> T. 201-239-2248
> jburnash at knight.com | www.knight.com
>
> 545 Washington Ave. | Jersey City, NJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Shucart [mailto:jacob at gluster.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:13 PM
> To: Burnash, James; gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: RE: Automount using /net/<brickname> in Glusterfs 3.1?
>
> James,
>
> Did you follow the instructions in:
>
> http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Auto
> matically_Mounting_Volumes_Using_NFS
>
> Please let me know if something in those instructions was not working.
> Thank you!
>
> -Jacob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Burnash, James
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:13 AM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Automount using /net/<brickname> in Glusterfs
> 3.1?
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm running Glusterfs 3.1.01 on Centos 5.2. I have 2 bricks setup as
> mirrored and distributed, created using the 3.1 gluster commands. They all
> work fine for client mounts and NFS mounts on the client of the form:
> mount -t nfs<brickname>:/mytest /mytest.
>
> I've gone through all the Gluster documentation about automatic mounting -
> /etc/fstab entries, etc. I did find some information on entries needed for
> map files - but nothing I've tried has worked for automounting a Glusterfs
> NFS share with this syntax:
>
> cd /net/<brickname>/mydirectory
>
> The command returns successfully, but a subsequent "mount" command shows
> that this automount directory is actually writing to "/" on the client.
>
> This is the syntax used everywhere in house so that explicit NFS mounts
> aren't needed in the /etc/fstab of every machine, and so there is no
> dependency on those mounts at boot time.
>
> Has anybody tried this syntax, and if so what did you have to configure to
> use autofs or amd daemons to perform this activity?
>
> James Burnash, Unix Engineering
>
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