Hi Amar/Burnash/jeff Thanks for the replies and i will plan for uniform disk space.Is there any RAID-5 Kind of setup possible through glusterfs 3.1.x.If it is possible, out of 10 systems, if one server failure is acceptable among the gluster peers.you have any configuration steps,please share with me ? glusterfs 3.1.2 will support afr/unify Translator kind of setup ? if it is possible, can you share with me the configuration examples? if not,what are the Translators support for glusterfs 3.1.2 ? Regards, Varadharajan