[Gluster-users] Xen and Glusterfs

[Nathan Stratton]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> Ok, tried that.  Installed on a local disk and it worked.  Changed the 
> "tap:aio" to "file", made sure it still worked, then copied it to gluster 
> file system and it works.  Try to do an install to the gluster file system 
> and it still hangs.  So I'm guessing the problem is in the "tap:aio" disk 
> access that virt-manager configures when I build a VM through its GUI. 
> Any insights on why that is a problem?  Or how to convince virt-manager to 
> use "file"?

Note, that file is very dangerous, if you lose power or get disconnected 
for any reason you can risk major file system corruption.

-Nathan