On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:30:40PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > > Alternatively: is it possible to determine for each file which brick it > > resides on? > > Yes, there is the virtual extended attribute > "trusted.glusterfs.pathinfo" which gives you the location (hostname) > of a file. # getfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.pathinfo /mnt/test-volume/Bonnie.6790/00001/0000000065GEmkQPntG getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: mnt/test-volume/Bonnie.6790/00001/0000000065GEmkQPntG trusted.glusterfs.pathinfo="(<DISTRIBUTE:test-volume-dht> <POSIX:storage1:/data/sdc/test/Bonnie.6790/00001/0000000065GEmkQPntG>)" Cool :-) Is there something comparable a client can do on the mountpoint to get a list of the component bricks in a volume? Regards, Brian.