> > Haha wow should I feel pretty stupid for not totally understanding that? > =P I'm sure it was me who explained it bad. Let me try to explain it in simpler terms. Suppose you have 3 servers, but you want only 2 copies of all files, the proposed configuration goes like this: three servers: server1, server2, server3 each server exports two volumes: vol-a, vol-b six available volumes: server1-vol-a, server1-vol-b, server2-vol-a, server2-vol-b, server3-vol-a, server3-vol-b. create 3 AFRs each having two subvolumes: afr1: server1-vol-a + server2-vol-b afr2: server2-vol-a + server3-vol-b afr3: server3-vol-a + server1-vol-b now unify the three afr's. this gives even distribution of files across three servers with 2 copies of each file. avati Is there a mac version of GlusterFS with a pretty GUI? actually a GUI (like viewing the volumes in a tree-like a graph) is planned for development -- ideas and suggestions welcome, and a mac port sometime down the line too. avati -- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
