<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi folks,</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I have a test gluster vol setup between 2 physical servers. Centos 6 / Gluster ver 3.4.2-1.el6</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Volume Name: storevol0</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Type: Replicate</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Status: Started</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Transport-type: tcp</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bricks:</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Brick1: store01.gluster:/mnt/brick0</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Brick2: store02.gluster:/mnt/brick0</font></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Each node (store01 and store02) also mounts the gluster vol locally in fstab:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>store01.gluster:/storevol0 /home glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0</i></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">and</font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>store02.gluster:/storevol0 /home glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0</i></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">When one node reboots I notice 2 results:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">- The /home mount on the remaining node is unavailable for 30-60 secs before becoming available.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">- The rebooted server does not mount /home on boot, but a mount request after boot up works fine.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I know I can tune the timeout setting and in my particular use case it wont matter so much, however how would this work if VMs where stored on this volume, surely the storage going missing for any number of seconds would cause a real problem with running virtual machines?</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">How can I get the mount to work on reboot, _netdev seems not to be helping?</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Regards</font></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span name="x"></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ALUN JAMES<br><font>Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><font>Tibus</font><br><br><font>T: +44 (0)28 9033 1122</font><br><font>E: ajames@tibus.com</font><br><font>W: </font><a href="http://www.tibus.com">www.tibus.com</a><br><br><font>Follow us on Twitter </font><a href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=tibus">@tibus</a><br><br><font>Tibus is a trading name of The Internet Business Ltd, a company limited by share capital and registered in Northern Ireland, NI31325. 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