I sent that mail to the list once already, I don't know if it was held up in moderation or just lost. Hi, for various reasons I can not just set up new nodes and extend the cluster, I need to replace it. Wrong machines, wrong disks, you get the idea. Now, the current setup is distributed replication setup with two disks on two nodes like that: a:b, A:B The new setup will be two nodes with four disks: a:b:c:d, A:B:C:D can i just cp -a the contents of my original setup on the corresponding disks in the new setup? Will the extended attributes be correct? If not, what would be the issues? thanks a bunch in advance for any insight, Philip -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20111025/8f65f510/attachment.htm>