On 08/29/2009 09:23 PM, Anand Avati wrote: > sharing my point of view). What we promise to fix is a way to (as best > as possible) somehow translate a backend FS hang into a "subvolume > down" status and consider that subvolume to be down. After that, you > will _still_ continue to face kernel hangs and lockups and just > glusterfs will stop hanging. Your machines would still remain locked > up. Thanks, Anand. This is exactly what I would expect. I'm looking forward to seeing this fix. :-) Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke<mark at mielke.cc>