http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Setting_up_AFR_on_two_servers_with_server_side_replication Most importantly please check out the "Breaking things" section I added. I will have to go look through the mailing list for conversations regarding this. There is no way around losing the cluster by doing server side afr is there? If you lose a server, the whole thing is down. Does this change if you have more than 2 servers? So far my testing and instructions have only been dealing with two servers and one or more clients.