Haha ok now I have something screwy. Below is my client.vol file. Now when I mount the cluster and try to create a directory it comes back with [root@dev glusterfs]# ls one two [root@dev glusterfs]# mkdir three mkdir: cannot create directory `three': File exists [root@dev glusterfs]# ls one three two [root@dev glusterfs]# Strange! Here is my config -------------------------------------------------- volume a1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 208.200.248.25 option remote-port 6996 option remote-subvolume locks end-volume volume a2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 208.200.248.25 option remote-port 6996 option remote-subvolume locks-afr end-volume volume b1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 208.200.248.26 option remote-port 6996 option remote-subvolume locks end-volume volume b2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 208.200.248.26 option remote-port 6996 option remote-subvolume locks-afr end-volume volume c1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 208.200.248.75 option remote-port 6996 option remote-subvolume locks end-volume volume c2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 208.200.248.75 option remote-port 6996 option remote-subvolume locks-afr end-volume volume afr1 type cluster/afr subvolumes a1 b1 option replicate *:2 end-volume volume afr2 type cluster/afr subvolumes b2 c1 option replicate *:2 end-volume volume afr3 type cluster/afr subvolumes c2 a1 option replicate *:2 end-volume volume unify1 type cluster/unify subvolumes afr1 afr2 afr3 option readdir-force-success on option scheduler rr option rr.limits.min-free-disk 10GB end-volume volume iothreads type performance/io-threads option thread-count 8 subvolumes unify1 end-volume volume readahead type performance/read-ahead option page-size 131072 option page-count 16 subvolumes iothreads end-volume volume stat-performance type performance/stat-prefetch option cache-seconds 1 subvolumes readahead end-volume --------------------------------------------------