Hi list, The following wiki page provides detailed information on "Volume life cycle extensions" or more fondly referred to as Hooks. Hooks are scripts/executables that would be run on the trigger of events like volume-start, volume-stop, etc. This allows admin to customise her volume 'deployment' work-flow. Of course it is not arbitrarily expressive/powerful yet. http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Hooks Hope to hear comments on how we should take this feature forward. I am thinking we should someday have a community repository of custom workflows built around Hooks that we can recommend each other. Thanks, Krish