Does that imply that we can create/modify file elements on one system, halt that system, and not see the new/modified file elements on a second system unless the second system had scanned its mount point before the first system went down? -----Original Message----- From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Darcy If by "rub its nose in it" you mean "perform a lookup operation on it through the client mount point" then yeah. That seems like a very gentle rub to me.