On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:18:24AM -0400, Shishir Gowda wrote: > Can you please provide the client(mnt) log files? > > Also if possible can you take the state dumps and attach them in the mail > "gluster volume statedump <volname>" > The o/p will be files in /tmp/<brick-path>.<pid>.dump.x It is now looking like it may be a strange hardware failure on one of the two servers; one of its NIC interfaces has dropped off (although we were using the other one for traffic). However, running the same job using a non-distributed volume on the other node worked fine. I will try to replicate this with the suspect node. If it's a hardware problem then I apologise for the noise; if it's a software problem I'll do the debug you suggest. Thanks, Brian