On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 13:48 -0400, Sean Fulton wrote: > I do not mean to be argumentative, but I have to admit a little > frustration with Gluster. I know an enormous emount of effort has gone > into this product, and I just can't believe that with all the effort > behind it and so many people using it, it could be so fragile. Often it's not individual pieces that are fragile but combinations of pieces. For example, two possible interactions might be involved for you: (1) There are known problems with the interaction between FUSE and transparent hugepages (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=764964). This could cause one or more of your server processes to lock up. (2) There are known problems with OpenVZ and our use of the "trusted" extended-attribute namespace (http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=35230&;). This should result in a clean failure, but it's possible that it's leading to problems tracking which replicas need updates instead. If you're still having problems with the workarounds for those two issues, please let us know.
