It happened only with quick-slave-io ON. With quick-slave-io off it's not happening. Also I observed that, when quick-slave-io is ON, slaves did not mount the gluster volume.
Created 2*3 striped-replicated gluster volume and ran pi estimator. It failed with following trace. It happened in ubuntu cluster but times are in sync. Removing the /tmp directory didn;t help either... 11/09/21 17:03:45 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task outputhttp://ubuntu7.gluster.com:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&taskid=attempt_201109211612_0003_r_000001_1&filter=stdout 11/09/21 17:03:45 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task outputhttp://ubuntu7.gluster.com:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&taskid=attempt_201109211612_0003_r_000001_1&filter=stderr 11/09/21 17:03:49 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : attempt_201109211612_0003_m_000100_2, Status : FAILED Error initializing attempt_201109211612_0003_m_000100_2: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File /mnt/glusterfs/tmp/hadoop-root/mapred/system/job_201109211612_0003/job.xml does not exist. at org.apache.hadoop.fs.glusterfs.GlusterFileSystem.getFileStatus(GlusterFileSystem.java:276) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:192) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:142) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.glusterfs.GlusterFileSystem.copyToLocalFile(GlusterFileSystem.java:481) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.copyToLocalFile(FileSystem.java:1197) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.localizeJob(TaskTracker.java:771) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.startNewTask(TaskTracker.java:1664) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.access$1200(TaskTracker.java:97) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$TaskLauncher.run(TaskTracker.java:1629) 11/09/21 17:03:49 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task outputhttp://ubuntu9.gluster.com:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&taskid=attempt_201109211612_0003_m_000100_2&filter=stdout 11/09/21 17:03:49 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task outputhttp://ubuntu9.gluster.com:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&taskid=attempt_201109211612_0003_m_000100_2&filter=stderr 11/09/21 17:03:52 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : attempt_201109211612_0003_r_000001_2, Status : FAILED Error initializing attempt_201109211612_0003_r_000001_2: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File /mnt/glusterfs/tmp/hadoop-root/mapred/system/job_201109211612_0003/job.xml does not exist. at org.apache.hadoop.fs.glusterfs.GlusterFileSystem.getFileStatus(GlusterFileSystem.java:276) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:192) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:142) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.glusterfs.GlusterFileSystem.copyToLocalFile(GlusterFileSystem.java:481) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.copyToLocalFile(FileSystem.java:1197) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.localizeJob(TaskTracker.java:771) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.startNewTask(TaskTracker.java:1664) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.access$1200(TaskTracker.java:97) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$TaskLauncher.run(TaskTracker.java:1629) 11/09/21 17:03:52 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task outputhttp://ubuntu9.gluster.com:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&taskid=attempt_201109211612_0003_r_000001_2&filter=stdout 11/09/21 17:03:52 WARN mapred.JobClient: Error reading task outputhttp://ubuntu9.gluster.com:50060/tasklog?plaintext=true&taskid=attempt_201109211612_0003_r_000001_2&filter=stderr 11/09/21 17:03:56 INFO mapred.JobClient: Job complete: job_201109211612_0003 11/09/21 17:03:56 INFO mapred.JobClient: Counters: 0 java.io.IOException: Job failed! at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:1252) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.PiEstimator.estimate(PiEstimator.java:297) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.PiEstimator.run(PiEstimator.java:342) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.PiEstimator.main(PiEstimator.java:351) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:68) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:139) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver.main(ExampleDriver.java:64) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)
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