Hallo I tried glusterfs-3.3.2 dd cp tar. - dd: ok - cp: ok - tar: fail (filesize=0) Whats going wrong? regards Heiko details - test10 cp root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# sleep 10;date; cp -p /etc/profile . Wed Jul 24 19:05:14 UTC 2013 root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# sleep 10;date; cp -p /etc/profile test1 Wed Jul 24 19:05:24 UTC 2013 root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# sleep 10;date; cp -p test1 test2 Wed Jul 24 19:05:35 UTC 2013 root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1570 Jul 19 19:39 profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1570 Jul 19 19:39 test1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1570 Jul 19 19:39 test2 drwxr-xr-x 14 root sys 14 Jul 20 11:05 var root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# -> ok ----------------------------------------------- - test11 dd testfile=testfile testdir=. sz=1 time dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024k count=$sz of=$testdir/${testfile}_${sz} 2>&1 | grep -v rec root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# time dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024k count=$sz of=$testdir/${testfile}_${sz} 2>&1 | grep -v rec real 0m1.083s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.276s root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# ls -l ${testfile}* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048576 Jul 24 19:23 testfile_1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485760 Jul 24 19:24 testfile_10 -> ok ----------------------------------------------- - test12 tar root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# src="profile test1 test2" root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# dst=test profile tar: profile: Cannot open: I/O error test1 tar: test1: Cannot open: I/O error test2 tar: test2: Cannot open: I/O error tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors root at z1-gluster:/mnt/gv3/test# ls -l $src $dst -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1570 Jul 19 19:39 profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1570 Jul 19 19:39 test1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1570 Jul 19 19:39 test2 test: total 0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 24 19:55 profile -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 24 19:55 test1 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 24 19:55 test2 -> fail