I'm just wondering how gluster and iscsi might work together. I suspect that in many situations they could be used interchangeably, but how about them working together? If a setup providing a gluster AFR service was on top of remote iSCSI targets, would protocol overhead become a serious problem? Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Creators of http://www.smartmessages.net/ UK resellers of info at hand CRM solutions marcus at synchromedia.co.uk | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk/