I am using patch-439 and things are working just fine with the timeout. The only issue is lots and lots of errors in the log file of the two boxes that are not shutdown. The errors continue at a rate of about 100 a sec even after the box that was shutdown is brought back up. 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video0_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video0_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video3_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video3_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video3_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video3_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video3_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video3_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video2_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video2_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video2_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=77 2007-08-07 16:24:01 E [afr.c:1818:afr_writev_cbk] block-a-ds-afr: (path=/vs0_video2_16_2007-08-07.rs child=mirror-a-ds) op_ret=-1 op_errno=7