I believe the OP left out a step. I am not saying this is a good idea, but ... One must change the replication factors marked in each inode for each file... This could be done using an mmapplypolicy rule: RULE 'one' MIGRATE FROM POOL 'yourdatapool' TO POOL 'yourdatapool' REPLICATE(1,1) (repeat rule for each POOL you have) Put that (those) rules in a file and do a "one time" run like mmapplypolicy yourfilesystem -P /path/to/rule -N nodelist-to-do-this-work -g /filesystem/bigtemp -I defer Then try your restripe again. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160901/a2e7f72a/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 21994 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160901/a2e7f72a/attachment.gif>