mogilefsd cannot see mogstored's running

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Justin Azoff wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 12:12 -0400, j.ignacio.leon at gmail.com wrote:
> > More info on the usage reporting / device table problem:
> > -- I am confused about this suggestion made earlier:
> > >try finding the line in mogstored that looks like this:
> > >      next unless $disk =~ /^$path/;
> > >and change it to
> > >       next unless $path =~ /^$disk/;
> >
> > I have tried it in the portion of mogstored that writes the usage
> > file. This results in a usage file being written to my "/" directory
> > rather than /var/mogdata/devN/.  Is this the expected behavior?
> > However my device tables are still empty and mogilefsd monitor reports
> > 404 not found on both devs when running the usage check.
> >
> > Should I worry about patching so it write to /devN perhaps? Or might
> > the problem  be elsewhere?
> >
> > Thanks for all the help guys!
> > J
>
> No.. that is there problem is.  I think on the real mogile servers, the
> devN directories actually correspond to mountpoints, so that code works.
> If your devN directory is just another directory, it doesn't work quite
> right.

Yeah.

I'd take a patch to make it work when it's not a mount point, or I'll do
it, if somebody can tell me the portable way to do it.

- Brad