It is not possible to mount a GlusterFS share over NFS on a Gluster server

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When trying to mount a GlusterFS share on a Gluster Server over NFS, the following errors are returned and mounting failed:

[root@node1 ~]# mount -t nfs -o vers=3 localhost:/dht /mnt
mount.nfs: mounting localhost:/dht failed, reason given by server:
  No such file or directory

or, sometimes

[root@node1 ~]# mount -t nfs -o vers=3 localhost:/dht /mnt
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting localhost:/dht

Environment

  • Red Hat Storage 2.0 (Beta2)

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