Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down

2014-11-25 Thread Joe Julian
A much simpler answer is to assign a hostname to multiple IP addresses (round robin dns). When gethostbyname() returns multiple entries, the client will try them all until it's successful. On 11/24/2014 06:23 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: This is simple and can be handled in many ways. Some

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down

2014-11-25 Thread Paul Robert Marino
volume not automounted when peer is down A much simpler answer is to assign a hostname to multiple IP addresses (round robin dns). When gethostbyname() returns multiple entries, the client will try them all until it's successful. On 11/24/2014 06:23 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: This is simple

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down

2014-11-25 Thread Poornima Gurusiddaiah
thing, won’t it? Confused, Eric From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Joe Julian Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:04 PM To: gluster-users@gluster.org Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down

2014-11-25 Thread Atin Mukherjee
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down Hmmm. I can see how that would work if you had an external client that wanted to connect to a cluster, and one of the nodes was down; it would need to pick another node in the cluster, yes. But that’s not my scenario

[Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down

2014-11-24 Thread Eric Ewanco
Hi all, We're trying to use gluster as a replicated volume. It works OK when both peers are up but when one peer is down and the other reboots, the surviving peer does not automount glusterfs. Furthermore, after the boot sequence is complete, it can be mounted without issue. It automounts

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster volume not automounted when peer is down

2014-11-24 Thread Paul Robert Marino
This is simple and can be handled in many ways.Some background first.The mount point is a single IP or host name. The only thing the client uses it for is to download a describing all the bricks in the cluster. The next thing is it opens connections to all the nodes containing bricks for that