Public bug reported: Mounting glusterfs volumes from localhost in fstab does not work because the mounts are started before the glusterfs-server daemon.
The problem is that upstart runs mountall before it runs the /etc/rc2.d /S20glusterfs-server initscript, so when the mount is tried it fails because there is not yet any glusterfs-server running on localhost. To reproduce (as root): apt-get install glusterfs-server glusterfs-client gluster volume create test <eth0-IP>:/var/tmp gluster volume start test mkdir /media/test echo "localhost:test /media/test glusterfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab shutdown -r now After rebooting, the new volume will not be mounted. However, once the system has started and glusterfs-server daemon is running, doing a 'mount -a' will work to mount the volume (confirming that the volume & fstab config are correct.) Solution: The solution is to replace the glusterfs-server initscript with a proper upstart job which will start the glusterfs-server daemon before the glusterfs mounts are tried by mountall. I have contributed the necessary upstart job upstream to the glusterfs project and it is included in the development source tree under extras/Ubuntu/glusterd.conf. https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/extras/Ubuntu/glusterd.conf To include this file in the glusterfs-server binary package, remove the debian/glusterfs-server.init file from the source package and add that upstart job to it as debian/glusterfs-server.upstart. ** Affects: glusterfs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876648 Title: Unable to mount local glusterfs volume at boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glusterfs/+bug/876648/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
