[Gluster-devel] glusterfs with vservers

[Martin Fick]

Hi,

I am trying to get glusterfs to work with vservers and I have not yet been 
successful.  

What I would like to do is export a share from a glusterfs daemon running 
inside a vserver guest and mount it using the vserver fstab (or fstab.remote) 
inside another vserver guest on the same host.  This does not seem to work, it 
seems like the mount never reaches the server.  I have messed with various 
other ways (using vserver commands such as vnamespace and secure-mount) to 
mount it also unsuccessfully.  

Has anyone had success with a similar scenario?

I know that some people have succeeded in mounting the share from withing a 
guest itself, but I do not want to do that.  I want to make the share available 
to many guests and I do not want to have to install glusterfs inside each 
guest.  Also there are security implications about this that I do not like.

Note: I have successfully mounted the share which is exported from a vserver 
guest on its host.  However, I have noticed that the server thinks that the 
client mounting it is itself, i.e. the logs mention the client by the server 
IP.  Is there a way to force the glusterfs mount to come from a specific IP 
when a machine potentially has several IPs?

Thanks,

-Martin

I am using glusterfs--mainline--2.5--patch-797 in all cases (clients & servers).