Gluster users - Sep 2015 - export volume from host with no brick?

Hi,

I'm starting out with glusterfs, really liking it, it's really great!

I have a question--is there any way for a host to appear to export a volume
which is available on the network, even though that host does not have a brick
associated with that volume?

To explain further, I have a number of hosts that are part of a cluster, I would
like them all to appear to export the same services (i.e., the glusterfs
volume), however on a hardware level only some of them are equipped with drives
that are part of the volume.  So host A has a brick, host B has a brick, but
host C does not.  Of the three commands:

mount -t glusterfs A:/Volume /mnt/mntpoint
mount -t glusterfs B:/Volume /mnt/mntpoint
mount -t glusterfs C:/Volume /mnt/mntpoint

The first two will succeed, the third will fail.  Is there any way to get the
third to succeed, short of buying an additional hard disk for host C and adding
it to the volume?  Is there a "workaround solution" that might involve
adding an empty brick?

Thanks so much,
C. Clauson
 		 	   		  
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Cooper Clauson <ceclauson at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> mount -t glusterfs A:/Volume /mnt/mntpoint
> mount -t glusterfs B:/Volume /mnt/mntpoint
> mount -t glusterfs C:/Volume /mnt/mntpoint
>
> The first two will succeed, the third will fail.
No, the third command will also succeed provided C is in trusted storage pool.
All you need to do is "gluster peer probe C" from A or B.