On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:58:56AM -0400, Rajesh Amaravathi wrote: > one can use the clear_xattrs.sh script with the bricks as argument to remove all the xattrs set on bricks. it recursively deleted all > xattrs from the bricks' files. after running this script on bricks, we can re-use them What about the .glusterfs directory? Can that be ignored (i.e. the xattrs take precedence) or does that need cleaning too?