Hi I notice an oddity on the backends: for many files, I have an empty shadow file with mode 01000 on the other dht brick: $ ls -l /export/*/usr/src/gnu/dist/texinfo/m4/Makefile.in ---------T 1 root wheel 0 Jul 19 05:08 /export/wd1a/usr/src/gnu/dist/texinfo/m4/Makefile.in -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10403 Sep 2 2008 /export/wd3a/usr/src/gnu/dist/texinfo/m4/Makefile.in The file have indeed been handled by glusterfs: getextattr -x trusted.gfid /export/*/usr/src/gnu/dist/texinfo/m4/Makefile.in /export/wd1a/usr/src/gnu/dist/texinfo/m4/Makefile.in 000 97 03 30 72 7e 52 4c de b0 8a 6b 42 43 f8 bf 30 ..0r~RL...kBC..0 /export/wd3a/usr/src/gnu/dist/texinfo/m4/Makefile.in 000 97 03 30 72 7e 52 4c de b0 8a 6b 42 43 f8 bf 30 ..0r~RL...kBC..0 Is that a bug or a feature? :-) -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx