I am runing CenOS 5.7 on 4 nodes with gluster 3.2.5. I have 1 distributed volume with 1 brick on each node: [root at clus-node1 ~]# gluster volume info Volume Name: distribute01 Type: Distribute Status: Started Number of Bricks: 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: cln1:/distribute01 Brick2: cln2:/distribute01 Brick3: cln3:/distribute01 Brick4: cln4:/distribute01 Options Reconfigured: performance.write-behind: on performance.cache-size: 256MB The file system for each brick is XFS mounted as such: [root at clus-node1 ~]# mount ... /dev/sdb1 on /distribute01 type xfs (rw,noatime,nodiratime) ... Using the native gluster client 3.2.5, on another server, I've mounted volume "distribute01" [root at nas1 ~]# mount ... glusterfs#172.30.5.18:/distribute01 on /glusterfs_distribute01 type fuse (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=131072) ... I have yet to find any file/directory with extended attribute, expecially "trusted.gfid" (don't know what other attributes may be used). I can set an attribute through the gluster client mounted file system: [root at nas1 ~]# setfattr -n user.foo -v test /glusterfs_distribute01/IT/test.txt [root at nas1 ~]# attr -l /glusterfs_distribute01/IT/test.txt Attribute "foo" has a 4 byte value for /glusterfs_distribute01/IT/test.txt [root at nas1 ~]# getfattr -n user.foo /glusterfs_distribute01/IT/test.txt getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: glusterfs_distribute01/IT/test.txt user.foo="test" setfattr -x user.foo /glusterfs_distribute01/IT/test.txt The file system supports extended attributes, however there are NO attributes associated with any files or directories. Logs are full of "no gfid found" If I run attr -l <any file> returns nothing Any help would be appreciated, seems like a gross misconfiguration somewhere.