Created a volume "V" gluster volume info V: Volume Name: V Type: Distribute Status: Started Number of Bricks: 3 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: 192.168.1.84:/home/raj/bricks/d Brick2: raj-pc:/home/raj/bricks/a-b-c Brick3: raj-pc:/home/raj/bricks/a/b/c the last two bricks make entries in /etc/glusterd/vols/V/bricks/ clash (both will have the filename "raj-pc:-home-raj-bricks-a-b-c") and only one remains after overwriting the other (slashes are replaced by hyphens for filenames). Volume mounts fine, but fails almost all Posix compliance tests (so one cannot do any operations on it). Need another way to store files in /etc/glusterd. Replacing slashes with hyphens( 's/\//-/g' ) does not work in this case.