version 3.1.2 latest Build Jan 18 2011 Setup: Volume Name: brick2 Type: Distributed-Replicate Status: Started Number of Bricks: 2 x 2 = 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: linguest2:/data/brick2 Brick2: linguest3:/data/brick2 Brick3: linguest4:/data/brick2 Brick4: linguest5:/data/brick2 If you read a write files to each of these machines, then make sure that these files are accessible on all 4 machines. Now shutdown linguest4 and linguest5. Originally the 2 machine setup was type replicate but when you add two further machines it changes the type to be "Type: Distributed-Replicate" as above. Now that the two machines have been halted the other two machines now have files missing. As the documentation states: "Distributed replicated volumes replicate (mirror) data across two or more nodes in the cluster" but if it was a mirror then I would have expected the 2 machines to still have access to all the files. Does anyone know if this is what is meant to happen or is this a bug. Also this has been tested many times and this is the result every time. Thanks Nick