Hi, We have a compute cluster running CentOS 6.2 (installed via Rocks 6.0) which mounts a gluster filesystem (gluster 3.3.1). To mount the gluster filesystem we included the following line in /etc/fstab mseas-data:/gdata /gdata glusterfs defaults 0 0 The issue we're seeing now is that if we reboot the client with this line present in /etc/fstab, the boot process hangs at installing local filesystem. If we comment this line out of fstab we can boot successfully. We can then uncomment this line and mount the gluster filesystem. Further, if we maintain 2 other copyies of /etc/fstab (say /etc/fstab_boot and /etc/fstab_gluster where neither fstab nor fstab_boot have the gluster line, but fstab_gluster does) then adding the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.d.local allows us to boot and mount gluster at boot /bin/cp -f /etc/fstab_gluster /etc/fstab mount -a /bin/cp -f /etc/fstab_boot /etc/fstab This seem like an awful kludge. Can someone suggest a cleaner (and presumably more robust) solution? Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Pat Haley Email: phaley at mit.edu Center for Ocean Engineering Phone: (617) 253-6824 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Fax: (617) 253-8125 MIT, Room 5-213 http://web.mit.edu/phaley/www/ 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4301