On 01/08/2013 09:02 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote: > * Why are there so many metadata operations, when those are usually rare? It could be our environment make the above more likely, because all servers accessing glusterfs run a cronjob at the same time: - look up data from a database - create any "missing" directories, i.e. mkdir /gluster/mount/... It is "a bit" reproducible with the following script run at the same time: for i in $(seq 1 1000); do mkdir -p /gluster/mount/dir/$i /gluster/mount/dir/$i/_logs /gluster/mount/dir/$i/pub done When running this on 2 servers, I can see (successful) self heal kicking in on one of the servers. I didn't test it very intensively - but on the other hand, I *only* see these failing self-heals on directories created automatically, as described above. Does it make any sense? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org