> The 2.0.3 release of gluster appears so far to have fixed the crash issue I > was experiencing. What was the specific patch that fixed for it I was > wondering? It was http://patches.gluster.com/patch/664/. A less ugly fix is lined up for 2.1 > Great job either way! It appears that with fuse 2.8 and newer kernels that > gluster absolutely flies. With a replication environment between two crummy > testbed machines it?s probably about twice as fast as 2.7.4 based fuse! Just curious, are the observed performance improvements in terms of IO throughput or metadata latency? Avati