[Gluster-users] Best practices after a peer failure?

[R.C.]

Hello to the list.

I'm practicing GlusterFS in various topologies by means of multiple 
Virtualbox VMs.

As the standard system administrator, I'm mainly interested in disaster 
recovery scenarios. The first being a replica 2 configuration, with one peer 
crashing (actually stopping VM abruptly) during data writing to the volume.
After rebooting the stopped VM and relaunching the gluster deamon (service 
glusterd start), the cluster doesn't start healing by itself.
I've also tried the suggested commands:
find <gluster-mount> -print0 | xargs --null stat >/dev/null
and
find <gluster-mount> -type f -exec dd if='{}' of=/dev/null bs=1M \; > 
/dev/null 2>&1
without success.
A rebalance command recreates replicas but, when accessing cluster, the 
always-alive client is the only one committing data to disk.

Where am I misoperating?

Thank you for your support.

Raf