I think this is likely a bug with either mount or glusterfs: [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/state/partition /state/partition1 ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /gluster ext3 defaults 0 1 /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol /pifs/ glusterfs defaults 0 0 [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 16G 2.6G 12G 18% / /dev/sda5 883G 35G 803G 5% /state/partition1 /dev/sda2 3.8G 121M 3.5G 4% /var tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 917G 200M 871G 1% /gluster none 7.7G 104K 7.7G 1% /var/lib/xenstored glusterfs#/etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol 2.7T 600M 2.6T 1% /pifs [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# mount -a [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# mount -a [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# mount -a [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 16G 2.6G 12G 18% / /dev/sda5 883G 35G 803G 5% /state/partition1 /dev/sda2 3.8G 121M 3.5G 4% /var tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 917G 200M 871G 1% /gluster none 7.7G 104K 7.7G 1% /var/lib/xenstored glusterfs#/etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol 2.7T 600M 2.6T 1% /pifs glusterfs#/etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol 2.7T 600M 2.6T 1% /pifs glusterfs#/etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol 2.7T 600M 2.6T 1% /pifs glusterfs#/etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol 2.7T 600M 2.6T 1% /pifs