I need to step back a little to understand the RCA correctly. If I understand the code correctly, the callstack which resulted in failed setattr is (in rebalance process): dht_lookup -> dht_lookup_cbk -> dht_lookup_everwhere -> dht_lookup_everywhere_cbk -> dht_lookup_everywhere_done -> dht_linkfile_create -> dht_lookup_linkfile_create_cbk -> dht_linkfile_attr_heal -> setattr However, this setattr doesn't change the file type. <dht_linkfile_attr_heal> STACK_WIND (copy, dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk, subvol, subvol->fops->setattr, ©_local->loc, &stbuf, (GF_SET_ATTR_UID | GF_SET_ATTR_GID), xattr); </dht_linkfile_attr_heal> As can be seen above, the setattr call only changes UID/GID. So, I am at loss to explain why the file type changed. Has anyone has any other explanation? regards, Raghavendra _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel