On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:37:03PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > Can you check if the 'acronyms' directory has the same gfid on all 4 servers > (from the backend)? I tried starting up from scratch: stop/delete/create/start the volume. I get exactly the same result. Here is the create command: gluster volume create gfs replica 2 transport tcp server1:/export/wd1a server2:export/wd1a server1:/export/wd3a server2:/export/wd3a >From the client, I copied /usr/share/misc to /gfs and I get this: client# ls /gfs/misc acronyms inter.phone mdoc.template style units.lib bsd-family-tree mail.help menu_sys.def termcap vgrindefs.db epsf.tex mail.tildehelp na.phone terminfo.db zipcodes indent.pro man.template na.postal texinfo.cat client# head -1 /gfs/misc/airport # $NetBSD: airport,v 1.40 2011/04/28 07:32:36 mbalmer Exp $ server1# ls /export/*/* /export/wd1a/misc: acronyms inter.phone mdoc.template style units.lib bsd-family-tree mail.help menu_sys.def termcap vgrindefs.db epsf.tex mail.tildehelp na.phone terminfo.db zipcodes indent.pro man.template na.postal texinfo.cat /export/wd3a/misc: NetBSD.el birthtoken flowers operator texinfo.tex acronyms.comp country language termcap.db texinfo.xsl airport domains magic.mgc terminfo usb_hid_usages ascii eqnchar msg_sys.def texinfo.dtd vgrindefs server2# ls /export/*/* /export/wd1a/misc: acronyms mail.help na.postal texinfo.cat bsd-family-tree mail.tildehelp style units.lib indent.pro menu_sys.def termcap vgrindefs.db inter.phone na.phone terminfo.db zipcodes /export/wd3a/misc: NetBSD.el ascii domains magic.mgc termcap.db acronyms.comp birthtoken flowers msg_sys.def terminfo airport country language operator usb_hid_usages -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@xxxxxxxxxx