Mike, There's a typo in your client volume file. You've specified the same server twice in your replicate configuration. > volume pair02 > type cluster/replicate > subvolumes cf03 cf03 > end-volume > That line should be: subvolumes cf03 cf04 I'm guessing that you killed the server cf03 and couldn't access data. You can also use the gluster-volgen to generate the client volume files. The tool can ensure that typos like this cannot happen. Vikas