As long as there are enough nodes to satisfy quorum, the volumes should remain R/W. Have you tried writing to the volume during this period? Anything in your logs?
Doug On 20 January 2017 at 17:06, Ziemowit Pierzycki <ziemo...@pierzycki.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 4-node gluster with distributed-replicated volumes that serve > out VM images. The purpose of using gluster was to provide highly > available storage for our virtualization platform. When performing > maintenance on one of the gluster nodes, I noticed the VM storage > becomes unavailable for the duration of the node being shutdown and > while the heal is running. Each VM qemu process connects to gluster > directly and needs to be restarted in order to bring up the VM again. > > So, is the setup wrong or does gluster not provide high availability? > > Thanks, > > Ziemowit > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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