Whenever I enable io-threads in one of my bricks I can cause a crash in client1: ls -lR /mnt/glusterfs while this is running in client2: ls -l /mnt/glusterfs ls: /mnt/glusterfs/secondary: Transport endpoint is not connected total 4 ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /mnt/glusterfs/backups ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /mnt/glusterfs/tmp At this point the brick with io-threads has crashed: 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:205:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: Got signal (11), printing backtrace 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /usr/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(gf_print_trace+0x2d) [0xb7fabd4d] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: [0xbfffe420] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /usr/lib/glusterfs/1.3.0-pre5/xlator/protocol/server.so [0xb761436b] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /usr/lib/libglusterfs.so.0 [0xb7fa9d55] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /usr/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(call_resume+0x4f2) [0xb7fb2462] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /usr/lib/glusterfs/1.3.0-pre5/xlator/performance/io-threads.so [0xb7626770] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7f823db] 2007-06-27 07:45:55 C [common-utils.c:207:gf_print_trace] debug-backtrace: /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7f0c26 The bricks is running on fedora and it doesn't want to generate a core. Any suggestions? This is the spec file I used for the test ### Export volume "brick" with the contents of "/home/export" directory. volume posix1 type storage/posix # POSIX FS translator option directory /mnt/export # Export this directory end-volume volume io-threads type performance/io-threads option thread-count 8 subvolumes posix1 end-volume ### Add POSIX record locking support to the storage brick volume brick type features/posix-locks option mandatory on # enables mandatory locking on all files subvolumes io-threads end-volume ### Add network serving capability to above brick. volume server type protocol/server option transport-type tcp/server # For TCP/IP transport # option transport-type ib-sdp/server # For Infiniband transport # option bind-address 192.168.1.10 # Default is to listen on all interfaces option listen-port 6996 # Default is 6996 # option client-volume-filename /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol subvolumes brick # NOTE: Access to any volume through protocol/server is denied by # default. You need to explicitly grant access through "auth" option. option auth.ip.brick.allow * # access to "brick" volume end-volume