Hi in the problem we have the server also hang to the point that there where no way to access it and we end rebooting the server to gain acces to it >> I have experienced similar problems with df hanging, transport endpoint >> disconnected, server locked ... with no apparent reason when copying >> a lot of files to the glusterfs file system. No idea if this is the real >> cause but since i changed something in the configuration the problems stop >> (by now). I had two servers exporting two unified bricks that were >> replicated on clients (two different replicated bricks), on the client >> configuration i had two vol files on each client, one for each different >> gluster bricks but both of them use the same names for the bricks (vol >> files where identical except for the option remote-subvolume brick >> values). Once i changed the name of the bricks so each file had >> bricks with names not identical to the other vol file the problems >> disapeared. Not sure if this was the problem or not but by now the >> problem has no appeared again. > > The problem you describe is a very different on than what is being > discussed. What you describe is a configuration issue, resulting in > glusterfs' fuse mountpoint to hang. The issue being discussed has the > configuration alright and the _backend_ fs is hanging. > > Avati > -- Salu-2 y hasta pronto ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- David Saez Padros http://www.ols.es On-Line Services 2000 S.L. telf +34 902 50 29 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------