If you can file a bug, we'll take it from there. Thanks. Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone even seen this before - an NFS mount through Gluster that gets > the filesystem size wrong and is otherwise garbled and dangerous? > > Is there a way within Gluster to fix it, or is the lesson that Gluster's NFS > sometimes can't be relied on? What have the experiences been running an > external NFS daemon with Gluster? Is that fairly straightforward? Might like > to get the advantages of NFS4 anyhow. > > Thanks, > Whit > > > ----- Forwarded message from Whit Blauvelt <whit.gluster at transpect.com> ----- > > Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 22:33:55 -0400 > From: Whit Blauvelt <whit.gluster at transpect.com> > To: gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: nfs mount in error, wrong filesystem size shown > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > I've got a couple of servers with several mirrored gluster volumes. Two work > fine from all perspectives. One, the most recently set up, mounts remotely > as glusterfs, but fails badly as nfs. The mount appears to work when > requested, but the filesystem size shown in totally wrong and it is not in > fact accessible. This is with 3.1.4: > > So we have for instance on one external system: > > 192.168.1.242:/std 309637120 138276672 155631808 48% /mnt/std > 192.168.1.242:/store > 19380692 2860644 15543300 16% /mnt/store > > where the first nfs mount is correct and working, but the second is way off. > That was the same result as when /store was nfs mounted to another system > too. But on that same other system, /store mounts correctly as glusterfs: > > vm2:/store 536704000 14459648 494981376 3% /mnt/store > > with the real size shown, and the filesystem fully accessible. > > The erroneous mount is also apparently dangerous. I tried writing a file to > it to see what would happen, and it garbaged the underlying filesystems. So > I did a full reformatting and recreation of the gluster volume before > retrying at that point - and still got the bad nfs mount for it. > > The bad nfs mount happens no matter which of the two servers in the gluster > cluster the mount uses, too. > > Any ideas what I'm hitting here? For the present purpose, we need to be able > to mount nfs, as we need some Macs to mount it. > > Thanks, > Whit > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
