On Monday 18 July 2011 13:26:00 samuel wrote: > I don't know from which version on but, if you use the native client for > mounting the volumes, it's only required to have the IP active in the mount > moment. After that, the native client will transparently manage node's > failure. ACK, that's why we use this shared IP (e.g. for backup issues via nfs). AFAIR glusterFS retrieves Volfile (via shared IP) and connects to the nodes. Marcel