Hi, I created a a distribute stripe with 12 nodes, each with one brick. I expected 6 pairs to be striped with the large files but what I see on the actual brick is each file duplicated, ie. mirrored. This is the complete opposite of what I expected. I expected half the large file on one server and half on the second server. This is to allow for file sizes larger than an individual brick capacity. Is my configuration broken/misconfigured or am I completely misunderstanding what I see happening? gluster mount /scratch/kabbey/bwa-out/testing -rw-r--r-- 1 kabbey staff 477G Apr 29 04:06 COLO_829.sam_sruno gluster nodes with the file: node01: -rw-r--r-- 2 kabbey staff 477G Apr 29 04:06 COLO_829.sam_sruno node02: -rw-r--r-- 2 kabbey staff 477G Apr 29 04:06 COLO_829.sam_sruno gluster vol info Volume Name: scratch Type: Distributed-Stripe Volume ID: 3cc5a78d-9cc8-4324-9c00-6fab0a4ef14a Status: Started Number of Bricks: 6 x 2 = 12 Transport-type: tcp,rdma Bricks: Brick1: node01-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick2: node02-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick3: node03-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick4: node04-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick5: node05-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick6: node06-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick7: node07-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick8: node08-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick9: node09-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick10: node10-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick11: node11-ib0:/export/brick1 Brick12: node12-ib0:/export/brick1 Options Reconfigured: cluster.stripe-block-size: 512KB Thank you for any help, Kevin -- Kevin Abbey Systems Administrator Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB) http://ccib.camden.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers University - Science Building 315 Penn St. Camden, NJ 08102 Telephone: (856) 225-6770 Fax:(856) 225-6312 Email: kevin.abbey at rutgers.edu