Alexander Atticus wrote: > I am wondering if there is anyone on list that is successfully serving > virtual machine images (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc.) over GlusterFS. I am > concerned about difficulties the interaction with GlusterFS and large > files that are held open for large periods of time (except when the VM > is rebooted). Afaik, VMWare won't recognize a Gluster mountpoint as a valid datastore. This isn't an issue with Gluster specifically, but rather with VMWare generally ; Samba and NFS are the only network filesystems which work in this capacity, with Samba being a relatively new addition at that. -- Daniel Maher <dma+gluster AT witbe DOT net>
