First of all hello to all, I have build up a two peer gluster on centos 5.5 x64 My Version: glusterfs --version glusterfs 3.1.0 built on Oct 13 2010 10:06:10 Repository revision: v3.1.0 Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Gluster Inc. <http://www.gluster.com> GlusterFS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of GlusterFS under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License. I set up my bricks and vols with success: [root at ctdb1 peers]# gluster volume info Volume Name: samba-vol Type: Replicate Status: Created Number of Bricks: 2 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: 192.168.132.56:/glusterfs/export Brick2: 192.168.132.57:/glusterfs/export And mounted them everything great. But when testing: Writing on one peer-server while the other is restarted or down gluster is hanging until the second Is online again. How do I manage to get around this. Users should work without interruption or waiting and the files should be replicated Again after the peers are online again!?? ----------------------------------------------- EDV Daniel M?ller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 T?bingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de Internet: www.tropenklinik.de -----------------------------------------------