That's it! I will now proceed to give myself 10 lashes for being a moron and another 2 for taking up your time.. Thanks again and I now I know why I belong outside of ops cuddled and isolated away from the rest of the world in my cube.. Thank you once again.. works like a charm.. :) ilan Checkout www.likevine.com - a place for members to save and share web links with family, friends, colleagues or other LikeVine members. ________________________________________ From: anand.avati at gmail.com [anand.avati at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anand Avati [avati at zresearch.com] Sent: November 20, 2008 14:00 To: Ilan Berci Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: Re: My ignorance and Fuse (or glusterfs) 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.. You are supposed to touch/copy/move files from the mountpoint and not the export dir. Accessing the backend (export dir) directly is not 'supported'. avati