----- "Sven Kummer" <mail at proxworx.org> wrote: > I removed the files in the export directory on server1 only for > simulating a hdd crash (files lost) and want the server1-daemon to resync it's > export directory with the other server. Sven, What is happening in your case is: http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_AFR_Translator#Self-heal_of_a_file_that_does_not_exist_on_the_first_subvolume If you happen to lose all files on server1, you can force self-heal to happen by doing: On server2 backend root at server2 # find /path/to/export/dir > file-list.txt On mountpoint: root at client1 # cat file-list.txt | xargs stat Vikas -- Engineer - http://gluster.com/