On 03/22/2012 08:51 AM, Daniel Pereira wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Hope anyone can shed some light on some strange behavior we've just > having with Gluster. > Last night, while using gluster3.3b2, we came up with some errors, after > running tests for several days. > Hi Daniel, Can you consider testing 3.3.0qa32+ versions untill 3.3.0beta3 is made available? Because 3.3.0beta2 was pretty old and we have made significant changes/bug fixes after the beta2 release. > We're running the test in a striped 4 disk volume: > # gluster volume info data > Volume Name: data > Type: Stripe Considering this is a 'stripe' volume, what is the backend filesystem you are using? Because with XFS there seems to be some issues with data block pre-allocation algorithm, and glusterfs's logic of leaving holes for striped blocks. We are evaluating better ways of solving the stripe issue, till then, I recommend ext4 or other filesystems for you as backend. Regards, Amar