Avati, That won't work as true replication. If the app is getting a list of files in a directory to act upon, they will get a short list and not even know that some files are missing. When we put files out on client0 we need for those files to replicate to all nodes.
Gerry, If the file exists on any one volume it should be visible to the application (entry should exist in 'ls') and get replicated to the configured number of copies (based on filename) during the followng open(). thanks, -- Anand V. Avati