Hi I get a reprodcutbile crash of glusterfsd, running 3.2.1 code. I get it by running multiple tar -xzf on a client, and after a while, a glusterfsd on a brick crashes: Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xba0d652e in server_rchecksum_cbk (frame=0xbad007d0, cookie=0xbaf00300, this=0xba810000, op_ret=-1, op_errno=9, weak_checksum=0, strong_checksum=0xb91ffc74 "") at server3_1-fops.c:1305 Here is the offending code if (op_ret == -1) gf_log (this->name, GF_LOG_INFO, "%"PRId64": RCHECKSUM %"PRId64" (%"PRId64") ==> %"PRId32" (%s)", frame->root->unique, state->resolve.fd_no, state->fd ? state->fd->inode->ino : 0, op_ret, strerror (op_errno)); The problem is state->fd->inode value: (gdb) print *((server_state_t *)frame->root->state)->fd $7 = {pid = 2610, flags = 2, refcount = 2, inode_list = {next = 0xb9801088, prev = 0xb9801088}, inode = 0xaaaaaaaa, lock = {pts_magic = 3735879687, pts_spin = 0 '\0', pts_flags = 0}, _ctx = 0xbb96b080, xl_count = 8} inode = 0xaaaaaaaa is set in fd_destroy() to denote a stale object (It is less fun than using 0xdeadbeef :-) That suggests a race condition where a thread uses a fd that another thread destroyed. Of course, the value could be checked at the beginning of server_rchecksum_cbk(), but I suspect the problem is more widespread that this. There are many other places in server3_1-fops.c where state->fd->inode->ino is used. And should the value be checked at the beginning of server_rchecksum_cbk() and its friends, or in any gf_log() call, like this: if (op_ret == -1) gf_log (this->name, GF_LOG_INFO, "%"PRId64": RCHECKSUM %"PRId64" (%"PRId64") " "==> %"PRId32" (%s)", frame->root->unique, state->resolve.fd_no, state->fd && (state->fd->inode != 0xaaaaaaaa) ? state->fd->inode->ino : 0, op_ret, strerror (op_errno)); FWIW this is a 2x2 replicated and distributed setup. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx