On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:54:30 +0200 "Dennis Kern" <dennis.kern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm evaluate glusterfs and I setup an test-enviorment like in > http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Simple_High_Availability_Storage_with_GlusterFS_1.3#Simple_setup_.28_Only_AFR_.29 > described. But "only" with 2 insted of 3 machines. All of them are > virtual machines (vmware) > > I simulate a server crash on server "2" (disconnect network on > vmware-console) at this point I'm not able to access to the mount > point on the client side directly. I type ls directly after disconnect > of server "2": > > client:/mnt/gluster# time ls > file1 file2 file3 > > real 3m21.505s > user 0m0.004s > sys 0m0.000s Try setting the timeout for the NS and DS blocks to something low, like 10 or 20 seconds : volume <ds> type protocol/client ... option transport-timeout 10 # <-- timeout in seconds end-volume -- Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>