Im testing the nufa translator and notice that it doesnt have any affect in terms of performance im currently testing 1 node cluster wich is server + client The test : on normal h.d time dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=10240 count=1000 results 102400000 bytes (102 MB) copied, 1.02154 seconds, 100 MB/s on nufa mounted volume cluster type cluster/nufa option lookup-unhashed no option local-volume-name `hostname` subvolumes storage1 end-volume time dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=10240 count=1000 results 10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 3.78787 seconds, 2.7 MB/s (its ok seens its on vmware image so i dont expect good results here) on none nufa mounted volume cluster type cluster/distribute option lookup-unhashed yes subvolumes storage1 end-volume time dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=10240 count=1000 results 10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 3.61982 seconds, 2.8 MB/s about the same even faster :) the none nufa is faster but its just a small divercity wich happen all the time , buttom line is that its the same no perfomance gain when using nufa .