On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Michele Tartara <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> Yes, mounting is safe as in "if nobody did it before and we do it, then we
> know we are not impacting anything else".
>
> But if something is already mounted, you need to check whether it's what you
> need or not. Otherwise you might end up writing files in the wrong place
> (for example, not in the actually shared file system).
>
ACK.
> In order to check what is mounted there, you can have a look at the content
> of /etc/mtab (or at the output of "mount" executed with no parameters, which
> should be the same).
>
Should I do it as follows?
if not os.path.ismount(gluster_storage_dir):
do_mount_operations.
else:
etc_mtab = get_etc_mtab_contents()
if fuse.glusterfs not in etc_mat:
report_errors()
Any Comments? thanks.
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Thanks
Weiwei Jia (Harry Wei)
