Hi, All I have 4 nodes in a glusterfs. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) replicate each other, and replication1 and replication2 is distribued with cluster/distribute. I failed on booting qcow2 image files on this glusterfs volume by KVM. The issue will disappear if I move the qcow2 file to the outside of the glusterfs volume. How to reproduce the issue: 1. Create a qcow2 image file by "qemu-img" command like below and add the image file to config file of a guest os. qemu-img create -f qcow2 test-qcow2.img 20G 2. Boot the guest os and will get a error message like below. "qemu: could not open disk image /path/test-qcow2.img" All 4 nodes are CentOS 5 instances connected over GbE. My configs are below. Any ideas will be appreciated. Server: ---------------------------- volume posix type storage/posix option directory /path/export end-volume volume locks type features/locks subvolumes posix end-volume volume brick type performance/io-threads option thread-count 32 subvolumes locks end-volume volume server type protocol/server option transport-type tcp option transport.socket.bind-address 192.168.0.5 option auth.addr.brick.allow 192.168.*.* subvolumes brick end-volume ----------------- Client: ----------------- volume remote1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp option remote-host remote1.host option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume remote2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp option remote-host remote2.host option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume remote3 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp option remote-host remote3.host option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume remote4 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp option remote-host remote4.host option remote-subvolume brick end-volume volume replicate1 type cluster/replicate subvolumes remote1 remote2 end-volume volume replicate2 type cluster/replicate subvolumes remote3 remote4 end-volume volume distribute type cluster/distribute subvolumes replicate1 replicate2 end-volume volume writebehind type performance/write-behind option cache-size 1MB subvolumes distribute end-volume volume cache type performance/io-cache option cache-size 512MB subvolumes writebehind end-volume ------------------------ -Sheng