----- Original Message ----- > Write performance remains poor. It would probably be OK to use > Gluster as a > backend for a mostly-static VM, which mounts a separate gluster > volume for > large data (which also has the advantage that this data is shareable > to > other VMs and for easy backup) To set expectations at the appropriate level, this is the recommended setup, if you're going to do it. Further enhancements down the road will enable better performance for other use cases, but for now, don't expect a VM residing on a GlusterFS volume to have great write performance. If anyone wishes to jump in with their setup that clashes with that opinion, by all means, please do. -JM