Re: [Gluster-devel] Problem with Firefox/Mozilla on GlusterFS

[Anand Avati]

> Indeed, I am referring to the RedHat Package Manager. Quite simply put, if 
> /var/lib/rpm is on GlusterFS, any attempt to use rpm fails. I tried various 
> flags in DB_CONFIG in /var/lib/rpm that should have, in theory, disabled mmap 
> usage, but they made no difference, all rpm operations would fail even before 
> rpm finished creating it's /var/lib/rpm/__* lock files.
>
> The way I worked around it is by converting the RPM database to use SQLite 
> (DB API 4 (SQLite) instead of 3 (BerkeleyDB), IIRC). This seems to work OK, 
> but the fact that Mozilla's use of SQLite seems to be unreliable on GlusterFS 
> concerns me.


Can you post the log files of the session where Mozilla misbehaved?

avati