> > Bandwidth is so cost effective now days I am not worried about slow links. > I can't however with any amount of money speed up the speed of light in a > glass fiber. : ) I understand their is not immediate fix, however do you > have any rough estimates? Are we talking weeks, months or years? AFR currently takes a 'synchronous' approach over its subvolumes.. i.e. completes operations over all its subvolumes before returning. Essentially it works as fast as the slowest subvolume. Changing this to work as fast as the 'fastest subvolume' needs some major changes (handling some race conditions) which are too disruptive to be introduced in 1.3.8. We are considering bringing this 'optimistic' behaviour (as opposed to the current 'pessimistic' one) for 1.4. That is about 2 months away. avati