Hi Dan,

Did you try with "devid" fs_key? It is based on the device id of the 
filesystem root,
so I believe it should be the same for all filesystem clients.

Regards
Thomas

On 01/11/15 23:37, Dan Mons wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're running a GlusterFS setup, and finding robinhood answers a lot
> of problems when it comes to large filesystem reporting.
>
> One issue we're having in the configuration is the fs_key value.  We
> want the rbh-* tools available to all workstation users.  The problem
> we have is that clients all mount our GlusterFS setup in different
> ways.
>
> Currently I have set:
>      fs_key = fsname ;
>
> All of our users, whether they connect via native glusterfs, nfs or
> smb, see our cluster mounted as /prod on their POSIX systems.  The
> problem is that the fs_key value is different on each system, as it
> enumerates the fsname based on different information, including fstype
> and the hostname of the "server" it connects to (which in our
> clustered setup, always looks different per client at mount time).
>
> Our setup is quite simple - one large clustered file system, with
> several different clients (Ubuntu Linux, CentOS Linux, MacOSX)
> mounting with different network file systems, but all mounted to the
> same point, named /prod.  We only want to report on this one
> centralised common name space.
>
> When I run rbh-report -D from different machines, I see this sort of thing:
>
> Correct:
>      file,    1.80 MB,    mhanger,       prod,                     ,
> /prod/vfx/adaline/store/sno_172_500/flips/sno_172_500_comp_nuk_v29_mh/sno_172_500_comp_nuk_v29_mh.1043.tga
>
> Incorrect:
>      file,    1.80 MB,    mhanger,       prod,                     ,
> 8D5E893E:1/vfx/adaline/store/sno_172_500/flips/sno_172_500_comp_nuk_v29_mh/sno_172_500_comp_nuk_v29_mh.1043.tga
>
> Is there a way I can force the "fs_key" to always be the same string
> for all clients and gluster nodes, and bypass the per-system
> enumeration?
>
> -Dan
>
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