On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote: > > cache=none is definitely what we want, but doesn't currently work with > > glusterfs. > > Would that be using something like O_DIRECT which FUSE > doesn't support at the moment? Yes. FUSE does support it in recent kernels (3.4), and I tried it. Nothing happened until I also mounted with -o direct-io-mode=enable; with that and cache=none, the VM was unable to start up at all.