Using this link as a reference: <a href="http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Manually_Mounting_Volumes">http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Manually_Mounting_Volumes</a><div>
The examples show the Gluster client is capable of mounting the top most directory of the volume. Is it possible to mount sub directories of a volume via "mount -t glusterfs" or am I limited to doing this only by NFS?</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example: </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "># mount -t glusterfs <i>HOSTNAME-OR-IPADDRESS:/VOLNAME/subdir1/subdir2</i> /<i>MOUNTDIR</i></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "><i><br></i></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">My attempts at trying to mount a sub dir results in an error. Based on the errors I see in log files and segments of code in client-handshake.c and glusterfsd-mgmt.c (source version 3.1.3), it seems like gluster treats "/VOLNAME/subdir1/subdir2" as the key/name of the volume when trying to find volume.vol to send back to the client (FWIW, I'm not 100% sure that this is correct as I briefly looked at a few source files pertaining to client access).</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">If this feature is not available, is it due to the client potentially not making the most efficient use of its resources (sockets - depending on number of gluster nodes and number of mounted subdirectories)?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Thank you</span></font></div>