that there are folks that run hundreds of VMs out of gluster. So it''s probably more about the data usage than just a generic viability statement as you made in your post. Gluster does not support databases, though many people use them on gluster without much problem. Please let me know if you see some problem with unstructured file data on VMs. I would be happy to help debug that problem. Regards, Tejas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justice London" <jlondon at lawinfo.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 12:52:19 AM Subject: [Gluster-users] Self heal with VM Storage I am running gluster as a storage backend for VM storage (KVM guests). If one of the bricks is taken offline (even for an instant), on bringing it back up it runs the metadata check. This causes the guest to both stop responding until the check finishes and also to ruin data that was in process (sql data for instance). I''m guessing the file is being locked while checked. Is there any way to fix for this? Without being able to fix for this, I''m not certain how viable gluster will be, or can be for VM storage. Justice London jlondon at lawinfo.com _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users