Hello, Thanks for your message. I searched at the four server nodes backend ext3 directories for some of the missing files and they are not listed there. By now, only 2 nodes mounted the dht fs. Also, the ls -la command does not show any of weird files without attributes. It "seems" that files were not completely deleted, from glusterfs pov, but deleted from backend ext3 nodes. Another hint: the number of weird files seems to stay "around" 80, but over time the list is being changed. So, over time, files finally vanish after deletion, while others enter weird state. What can I do? Regards. Andre Felipe Anand Avati <avati at gluster.com> wrote .. > Are your files present in the backend directories? > > Avati >