----- Original Message ----- > > Or change your perspective. Do you NEED to write to the VM image? > > I write to fuse mounted GlusterFS volumes from within my VMs. The VM > image is just for the OS and application. With the data on a > GlusterFS > volume, I get the normal fuse client performance from within my VM. ^^^ This We need to put this in a doc on gluster.org - because this causes no end of confusion. -JM