Thanks. We saw something very similar with root filesystem damage on one of our nodes locking access to the clusters it was a member of. Better logging wouldn't have helped there, since it was clobbering the glusterd logfile, but it does make me wonder if it isn't possible to get smarter error messages for host filesystem access issues? -- Daniel Taylor VP Operations Vocal Laboratories, Inc dtaylor at vocalabs.com 952-941-6580x203