Dear All, I would like to mount a GlusterFS volume via autofs, but I have been having some problems after following the instructions in the Client Installation and Configuration Guide. I am using GlusterFS version 3.0.5. In my first attempt I tried specifying the path to a volume file, as in the example from the Guide. Here is my autofs file entry. /data-alt/gorgon -fstype=glusterfs :/usr/local/Cluster-Config/etc/glusterfs/gorgon-mount.vol When I tried this I got the following error in my client log file, with date and time removed for brevity: E [glusterfsd.c:394:_get_specfp] glusterfs: error while getting volume file from server /usr/local/Cluster-Config/etc/glusterfs/gorgon-mount.vol Secondly, I tried pointing at one of the GlusterFS servers, as in another example from the Guide. Here is the line from my autofs file. /data-alt/gorgon -fstype=glusterfs :behemoth.nerc-essc.ac.uk The server in question has the client volfile in /etc/glusterfs, but the client is not able to fetch the file from the server. Here is the error from the client log file. E [glusterfsd.c:394:_get_specfp] glusterfs: error while getting volume file from server behemoth.nerc-essc.ac.uk Obviously the server needs to be configured in some way to allow clients to fetch volfiles from it. Can somebody explain to me how to do this? I also tried some variations on the same theme, as shown below with their corresponding errors. /data-alt/gorgon -fstype=glusterfs behemoth:/etc/glusterfs/gorgon-mount.vol E [fetch-spec.c:60:fetch_cbk] top: GETSPEC from server returned -1 (No such file or directory) E [glusterfsd.c:394:_get_specfp] glusterfs: error while getting volume file from server behemoth /data-alt/gorgon -fstype=glusterfs :behemoth:/etc/glusterfs/gorgon-mount.vol mount.vol' does not conform to standards. E [fetch-spec.c:203:get_shrub] trans: validating translator failed lusterfs/gorgon-mount.vol /data-alt/gorgon -fstype=glusterfs behemoth:gorgon-mount W [socket.c:1468:socket_init] trans: disabling non-blocking IO W [socket.c:1468:socket_init] trans: disabling non-blocking IO E [fetch-spec.c:60:fetch_cbk] top: GETSPEC from server returned -1 (No such file or directory) E [glusterfsd.c:394:_get_specfp] glusterfs: error while getting volume file from server behemoth The last of these was an attempt to mimic how I mount the volume exported by my Gluster Storage Platform cluster. Unfortunately I can't automount that either, even though the client does manage to fetch the volfile from the Plaform cluster head node. When I try to automount the directorythe mount process just hangs. Here is my autofs file entry associated with this separate problem. /data-alt/bdan -fstype=glusterfs bdan0:bdan-tcp The volfile is successfully fetched from the server and echoed to the client log file, but then nothing happens. I would appreciate any suggestions relating to both these problems. Regards, Dan B. /data-alt/gorgon -fstype=glusterfs bdan0:bdan-tcp -- Mr. D.A. Bretherton Reading e-Science Centre Environmental Systems Science Centre Harry Pitt Building 3 Earley Gate University of Reading Reading, RG6 6AL UK Tel. +44 118 378 7722 Fax: +44 118 378 6413
