On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 at 1:18pm, Mohit Anchlia wrote >>> Prior to this thread, I thought the best method was to use ucarp on the >>> servers and mount using the ucarp address. ?If that won't work right (I >>> haven't had time to fully test my setup yet), then I need to find another >>> way. ?I don't run DNS on my cluster, so that solution is out. ?As far as I >>> can tell, the only other solution is to mount in rc.local, with logic to >>> detect a mount failure and go on to the next server. >>> >> ucarp should work so would the script at startup to check hosts before mounting. > > BTW: You need a virtual ip for ucarp As I said, that's what I'm doing now -- using the virtual IP address managed by ucarp in my fstab line. But Craig Carl from Gluster told the OP in this thread specifically to mount using the real IP address of a server when using the GlusterFS client, *not* to use the ucarp VIP. So I'm officially confused. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF
