> What is meant by "background" self-heal is that reads to a file will not > block while the self-heal is in progress. This feature is new in the 3.x > releases. > Ah, thanks for clarifying this! The name 'non-blocking' would be maybe better than background, but if no one else had this problem than the problem is not on your side :) Any hints about the problem that with the original, glusterfs-volgen generated config (with writeback, readahead, etc) does not start sef-healing for 'ls -lR', I need to run this: find /gtest/ -type f -exec ls -la {} > /dev/null \; Thanks, miloska