Hello guys, Sorry if this has been discussed before, but the mailing list archives are not available and I could not check there first. I have few strange issues with AFR and one config question. Here they are ;) : I have the following setup: 6 servers and 3 clients. For the test I use only 2 servers in AFR and 1 client All the software is running under VMWARE virtual machines Centos 5.1 Kernel: 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 GFS: glusterfs-1.3.9-1 FUSE: fuse-2.7.3glfs10-1 I export one single partition with XFS filesystem Here are the config files: Server config: ================================================ volume brick type storage/posix option directory /data/export end-volume volume server type protocol/server option transport-type tcp/server option auth.ip.brick.allow * subvolumes brick end-volume ================================================ Client Config: ================================================ volume brick1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 10.100.1.1 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume brick2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client option remote-host 10.100.1.2 option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume afr1 type cluster/afr subvolumes brick1 brick2 end-volume ================================================ I mount the volume with the following command: glusterfs -f /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol /mnt/glusterfs The problems I am facing are the following Problem 1 a) I start both servers and mount on one client b) I create some files and dirs on the mount point c) killall glusterfs on server1 d) create some new dirs and files e) start glusterfs again on server1 At this point it just does not want to replicate. I tried unmount/mount the underlaying filesystem or even recreating it but no luck, it just dont want to replicate. The things get better if I reboot server1 machine. After the reboot replication start to work and replicates the files. However another problem pops up. Problem 1A: All the synced files/dirs have creation time Jan 1 1970 and I dont see a way to fix this. If I create new file on the client the date is fine, however if I start from clean partition all the synced files have date Jan 1 1970 The time on the servers and clients is in sync with ntpd. Problem 2 a) I create some files/dirs while both servers are up b) killall glusterfs on server1 c) mkdir -p /mnt/glusterfs/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 - on the client d) cd /mnt/glusterfs/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 - on the client e) start glusgerfs on server1 - glusterfs -f /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-server.vol f) on the client I do - touch some files here and there and I get this error: [root at r3cl1 8]# touch some files here and there touch: cannot touch `some': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `files': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `here': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `and': No such file or directory touch: cannot touch `there': No such file or directory Thank you in advance for any help. Regards, Deian