On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:18:26AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > The client will still fail (in most cases) since host1 (if I follow you) is > > part of the gluster groupset. Certainly if it's a distributed-only, maybe not > > if it's a dist/repl gluster. But if host1 goes down, the client will not be > > able to find a gluster vol to mount. > > For sure it will not fail if replication is used. Aside: it will *fail* if the client reboots, and /etc/fstab has server1:/volname, and server1 is the one which failed.