On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:24:26 -0500 Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > Can't start a volume. > > [root at sfsccl03 ~]# gluster volume start brick1 > brick: sfsccl03:/data/brick-sdc2/glusterfs/dht, path creation failed, > reason: No such file or directory > > But ... > > > [root at sfsccl03 ~]# ls -alF /data/brick-sdc2/glusterfs > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 27 Dec 2 13:00 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 107 Jul 5 11:55 ../ > drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 61 Sep 15 11:35 dht/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Dec 2 13:00 dht2/ The mode on /data/brick-sdc2/glusterfs/dht - especially the sticky bit set - seems odd. Have you looked at the xattrs on that?