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