Hi The spurious disconnect I encountered in 3.4 branch still happen in 3.4.0alpha, but glusterfs recovers much better now. However, when running huge tar -xzf I still hit operation failures, after which everything is restored to normal state. Here is the client log, in which the issue is hit at 18:06:36 http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/client.log The relevant part is below. I understand glusterfs is able to restore its connections and everything works fine, except when it happens on all volumes simultaneously. [2013-02-28 18:06:36.105271] W [socket.c:1962:__socket_proto_state_machine] 0-gfs33-client-3: reading from socket failed. Error (No message available), peer (192.0.2.98:49153) [2013-02-28 18:06:36.105340] E [rpc-clnt.c:368:saved_frames_unwind] 0-gfs33-client-3: forced unwinding frame type(GlusterFS 3.3) op(LOOKUP(27)) called at 2013-02-28 18:06:36.104358 (xid=0x3728220x) [2013-02-28 18:06:36.105454] W [client-rpc-fops.c:2624:client3_3_lookup_cbk] 0-gfs33-client-3: remote operation failed: Socket is not connected. Path: /manu/netbsd/usr/src/external (6fb65713-062a-464d-a9d4-e97dab3c298b) [2013-02-28 18:06:36.105514] E [rpc-clnt.c:368:saved_frames_unwind] 0-gfs33-client-3: forced unwinding frame type(GlusterFS 3.3) op(RELEASE(41)) called at 2013-02-28 18:06:36.104843 (xid=0x3728221x) [2013-02-28 18:06:36.105537] I [client.c:2097:client_rpc_notify] 0-gfs33-client-3: disconnected [2013-02-28 18:06:36.105571] E [afr-common.c:3761:afr_notify] 0-gfs33-replicate-1: All subvolumes are down. Going offline until atleast one of them comes back up.[2013-02-28 18:06:36.112037] I [afr-common.c:3882:afr_local_init] 0-gfs33-replicate-1: no subvolumes up -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz manu@xxxxxxxxxx