I have a very simple test setup of 2 servers each working as a glusterfs-server and glusterfs-client to the other in an afr capacity. The gluster-c and gluster-s both start up with no errors and are handshaking properly.. One one server, I get the expected behaviour: I touch a file in the export dir and it magically appears in the others mount point. On the other server however, the file doesn't move from the export directory to the mount point (and therefore doesn't travel to the other client's mount point) and I don't have the foggiest idea why.. The client server files are mere duplicates of each other (except for host names and volume names) .. Not including log files as there are NO errors in any of them, (I get a warning about the handshaking on the first line and then beautifull peace) (Both client and server logs produce identical results on both machines) Here are my versions on both machines Debian 4.0r5 glusterfs-client 1.3.8-0pre2 libc6 2.3.6.dsl-13etch7 libglusterfs0 1.3.8-0pre2 libibverbs 1.0.4-1 fuse-utils 2.7.2-glfs8-0 libfuse-dev 2.7.2-glfs8-0 libfuse2 2.7.2-glfs8-0 Any ideas as to where I should start looking? I am so close now I can just taste it.. :) Both the user FAQ and technical FAQ don't seem to mention anything even remotely related to this so I am starting to think that this has to be incredibly simple and I am missing the obvious.. (kind of like yesterday.. ) ===================== client ws1 vol ======================== volume home1 type storage/posix option directory /var/glusterfs/export end-volume volume home2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host ws2 option remote-subvolume home2 end-volume volume afr type cluster/afr option read-subvolume home1 subvolumes home1 home2 end-volume ===================== client ws2 vol ======================== volume home1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host ws1 option remote-subvolume home1 end-volume volume home2 type storage/posix option directory /var/glusterfs/export end-volume volume afr type cluster/afr option read-subvolume home2 subvolumes home1 home2 end-volume ===================== server ws1 vol ======================== volume home1 type storage/posix option directory /var/glusterfs/export end-volume volume server type protocol/server option transport-type tcp/server subvolumes home1 option auth.ip.home1.allow * end-volume ===================== server ws2 vol ======================== volume home2 type storage/posix option directory /var/glusterfs/export end-volume volume server type protocol/server option transport-type tcp/server subvolumes home2 option auth.ip.home2.allow * end-volume ilan