Hello, My test configuration: two machines in AFR, client on one of them. 100MBit ethernet link. # time find /mnt/gluster/ | wc 219867 219867 11548172 real 5m2.822s 219867/(5*60+2) = 728 files per second. On ext3 (the same files): # time find /mnt/disk2/ | wc 219867 219867 11108438 real 0m1.545s 146000 files per second (200 times faster). Do you have any suggestions how to improve metadata performance?