The changelog for version 3.1 contains the next entry: Author: Anand Avati <avati at gluster.com> Date: Wed Sep 29 06:53:35 2010 +0000 replicate: remove checks which prevented self-heal when open fds were present this check is not needed anymore since the introduction of changelog piggybacking as the optimization technique instead of first-write-to-flush technique Does this tackle the problem seen on self-heal of open files of mysql database? Will there be a 3.0.6 version that contains these fixes? Regards, Richard > The only issue that stays is if the standby node fails, the files are > only synchronized (self healed) when the database is restarted or > an update is done to the database (mysql internally does a write to > the open file). > a ls -lRt does not trigger a self heal...