[Gluster-devel] error while reading from an open file

[Vijay Bellur]

Brian Hirt wrote:
>
> The first part of this problem (open files not surviving gluster 
> restarts) seems like a pretty major design flaw that needs to be fixed. 
Yes, we do know that this is a problem and we have our sights set on 
solving this.

> The second part (gluster not reporting the error to the writer when 
> gluster chokes) is a critical problem that needs to be fixed.   

This is a bug in the write-behind translator and bug 242 has been 
tracked to address this.

A discussion from the mailing list archives which could be of interest 
to you for the tail -f problem:

http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/20090113/001362.html

Regards,
Vijay