Hi everyone, Following the request of bulde, I'm sending you the lousy scripts I wrote to quicky generate some nodes ;) Usage: chmod a+x ./create_dir chmod a+x ./gen_client_conf chmod a+x ./gen_server_conf chmod a+x ./storage_cluster ./storage_cluster <number of server nodes> It wasn't supposed for release so you will have to arrange the script to your environment. You will need a sudo, an a glusterfs/ directory which will be the mount point of glusterFS. Example: toad@vlk:~/gfs$ ./storage_cluster 10 Starting Storage Cluster with 10 nodes.. Configuring node #0... up! (dir:/home/cfs0 - port:6996) Configuring node #1... up! (dir:/home/cfs1 - port:6997) Configuring node #2... up! (dir:/home/cfs2 - port:6998) Configuring node #3... up! (dir:/home/cfs3 - port:6999) Configuring node #4... up! (dir:/home/cfs4 - port:7000) Configuring node #5... up! (dir:/home/cfs5 - port:7001) Configuring node #6... up! (dir:/home/cfs6 - port:7002) Configuring node #7... up! (dir:/home/cfs7 - port:7003) Configuring node #8... up! (dir:/home/cfs8 - port:7004) Configuring node #9... up! (dir:/home/cfs9 - port:7005) Mounting partition... glusterfs:1840 on /home/toad/gfs/glusterfs type fuse (rw,allow_other,default_permissions) toad@vlk:~/gfs$ touch ./glusterfs/file{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10} toad@vlk:~/gfs$ find /home/cfs[0-9] -type f /home/cfs0/file2 /home/cfs1/file3 /home/cfs2/file4 /home/cfs3/file5 /home/cfs4/file6 /home/cfs5/file7 /home/cfs6/file8 /home/cfs7/file9 /home/cfs8/file10 /home/cfs9/file1 toad@vlk:~/gfs$ To remove all configuration files and kill glusterfsd processes, just run the script uninstall: toad@vlk:~/gfs$ ./uninstall removed storage node 0 files removed storage node 1 files removed storage node 2 files removed storage node 3 files removed storage node 4 files removed storage node 5 files removed storage node 6 files removed storage node 7 files removed storage node 8 files removed storage node 9 files kill all instances of glusterfsd umounted glusterfs partition removed configuration file for client toad@vlk:~/gfs$ Once again: your software rocks guys, thanks a lot