Did you do the chown operation to the mounted gluster filesystem, or to the exported by gluster filesystem on one of your storage bricks? What I mean is, is /shared/www what is exported in your glusterfsd.vol, or did you do mount -t glusterfs volfile /shared/www ? Doug On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote: > I have a /shared/www/example.com directory, being set up on a mirrored > glusterfs filesystem (two servers). > > I have a /shared/www/example.com/images/ directory there, owned by > root:root. > > > Now, I want the webserver to be able to write to this directory: simple, > just make the webserver the owner: > > server1# chown www-data:www-data images > > server1# ls -ld images > drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2010-09-14 22:19 images > > > Let's see what server2 thinks about it: > > server2# ls -ld images > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-14 22:19 images > > > Oops, it's back to root! > > > Now, what does server1 show? > > server1# ls -ld images > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-14 22:19 images > > As we can see, it's root again - ownership was reset, although I didn't use > "chown root:root". As a result, the webserver can't upload files (or, any > other process which would need a similar operation), although I initially > did "chown www-data:www-data images" on one of the servers. > > > > I'm using glusterfs 3.0.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
