I am using MHDDFS to pool a bunch of large disks together into a single filesystem that I can easily share across a network.
For some reason every now and then the virtual filesystem seems to fall apart and I get a "cannot access datastore: Transport endpoint is not connected" whenever I perform an ls
command in the directory containing the virtual filesystem.
As a result the filesystem becomes unusable accross the network. I have clients accessing it via SAMBA (windows) and NFS.
I have seen many users complain about this online but all the suggested solutions are unacceptable to me. Most people suggest unmounting and remounting the filesystem. A machine restart also works. I don't want to do this because then I have to SSH into the box every time this happens.
I'd like to know why this happens. The MHDDFS logfile is useless since it simply stops at the last file access entry and does not say what went wrong.
Any advice would be appreciated!