[Gluster-users] New to GlusterFS

[JC Putter]

Hi,

I am new to GlusterFS, i am trying to accomplish something which i am
not 100% sure is the correct use case but hear me out.

I want to use GlusterFS to host KVM VM's, from what I've read this was
not recommended due to poor write performance however since
libgfapi/qemu 1.3  this is now viable ?


Currently i'am testing out GlusterFS with two nodes, both running as
server and client

i have the following Volume:

Volume Name: DATA
Type: Replicate
Volume ID: eaa7746b-a1c1-4959-ad7d-743ac519f86a
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: glusterfs1.example.com:/data
Brick2: glusterfs2.example.com:/data


and mounting the brick locally on each server as /mnt/gluster,
replication works and everything but as soon as i kill one node, the
directory /mnt/gluster/ becomes unavailable for 30/40 seconds

log shows

[2013-10-22 11:55:48.055571] W [socket.c:514:__socket_rwv]
0-DATA-client-0: readv failed (No data available)


Thanks in advance!