Hi > The calls (as you have seen in the logs as well) which are hanging are > lookup calls, which have to be sent to all subvolumes to ensure all > the copies are in sync. one thing that i could not understand is why if such this calls are sent to all servers to keep files in sync why replicate will only self-heal if the files exist on the first subvolume but not if the files do not exist on the first subvolume -- Best regards ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- David Saez Padros http://www.ols.es On-Line Services 2000 S.L. telf +34 902 50 29 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------