Gluster filesystem mount issue in LXC container

I was setting up a Gluster cluster file system in 2 LXC containers where I ran into an error.

Implementation process

1. Install gluster-server,

in both containers:

$ sudo apt-get install glusterfs-server

2. Peer the gluster nodes,

in container01:

$ sudo gluster peer probe container02
peer probe: success

in container02:

$ sudo gluster peer probe container01
peer probe: success

3. Create the glusterfs manager folder,

in both containers:

$ sudo mkdir /gluster_data

4. Create vol1 volume,

in containers01:

$ sudo gluster volume create vol1 replica 2 transport tcp container01:/gluster_data container02:/gluster_data force
volume create: vol1: success: please start the volume to access data

5. Start the volume,

in container01:

$ sudo gluster volume start vol1
volume start: vol1: success

6. Mount the newly created shared storage vol1:

$ sudo mkdir /pool1

$ sudo mount /pool1 

And here, when I tried to mount the vol1, i got following error:

[2015-12-12 21:19:37.277176] I [glusterfsd.c:1910:main] 0-/usr/sbin/glusterfs: Started running /usr/sbin/glusterfs version 3.4.2 (/usr/sbin/glusterfs --volfile-id=/vol1 --volfile-server=container01 /pool1)

[2015-12-12 21:19:37.277756] E [mount.c:267:gf_fuse_mount] 0-glusterfs-fuse: cannot open /dev/fuse (No such file or directory)

[2015-12-12 21:19:37.277768] E [xlator.c:390:xlator_init] 0-fuse: Initialization of volume 'fuse' failed, review your volfile again

As per error it seems gluster looking for fuse device /dev/fuse which apparently isn't exist.

$ sudo ls /dev/fuse

ls: cannot access /dev/fuse: No such file or directory

Solution

To create the fuse device manually,

in both containers:

$ sudo mknod /dev/fuse c 10 229

Now try to mount again:

$ sudo mount /pool1 

$ df -h /pool1

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

container01:/vol1     30G   26G  2.5G  92% /pool1

And if you want to make the mount boot persistent, add the following line in the /etc/fstab for each container respectively: 

$ cat /etc/fstab

# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM

container01:/vol1 /pool1 glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0