mounted filesystem

[Adil Hasan]

Hello,
I'm seeing something strange. I've got an iRODS server which is accessing a
FUSE mounted filesystem (it's not an iRODS fuse-mounted collection) as an
iRODS resource. I create the iRODS resource as a unix file system, but
when I try to iput data into the resource I get a status = -510002
UNIX_FILE_OPEN_ERR error. Looking in the iRODS log file I see:

Feb 13 21:13:27 pid:28174 NOTICE: unixFileMkdir: mkdir of /mnt/irods_test
error, status = -520013

which suggests UNIX_FILE_MKDIR_ERR Permission denied. The directory exists
(the filesystem resource path is registered as /mnt/irods_test/resc1) so this
mkdir suggests to me that the directory isn't visible to iRODS.

Outside of iRODS it's
possible to write to the resource or create a directory without problems.

So, I'm wondering if somehow the iRODS server cannot 'see' the filesystem.
The filesystem is fuse mounted with:

irods_test on /mnt/irods_test type fuse.mcfs (rw,nodev,noatime,allow_other)

Has anyone else tried accessing FUSE mounted filesystems?

thanks,
adil

[Jean-Yves Nief]

hello Adil,

has the unix account running the irods server the rights to
create directories etc... for your fuse mount point: it should behave as
a normal unix file system.
cheers,
JY

[Adil Hasan]

Hello Jean-Yves,
thanks for the quick response. Yes we tried on the command link 'mkdir'
and it worked without problems. I tried using a 'normal' disk on the same
resource (ie local disk) to check if there were some config probs with the
iRODS server and that worked fine.
It's highly strange...
adil

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[Jean-Yves Nief]

hello Adil,

indeed, it is odd. Have you tried to open, write a file into
this fuse mount point using a small piece of code (using the C posix or
Python or whatever...) ?

[Adil Hasan]

Hello Jean-Yves,
good point! I will try that out with some C code and see if we can figure
out what the problem is.
much thanks,
adil