On 03/27/2013 11:16 AM, Jay Vyas wrote: > 1) What are the "rm -rf" incantations I can do to completely purge > any trace of gluster from my system so that i can start over? When I really want to remove all traces of GlusterFS from a system, short of reinstalling, I do this: killall -9 -r gluster yum remove $(rpm -qa | grep gluster) rm -rf /var/lib/glusterd rm -rf /etc/glusterfs > 2) What is the difference bettwen glusterd and glusterfs-server? There are several kinds of GlusterFS server daemons, all part of the glusterfs-server package: glusterd = management daemon glusterfsd = per-brick daemon glustershd = self-heal daemon glusterfs = usually client-side, but also NFS on servers The others are all started from glusterd, in response to volume start and stop commands. They're actually all the same executable with different translators, but there's generally no reason to care about that. > 3) Do I have to separately install glusterfs-server ? I don't see > it any where grepping through the source code. If you want a system to be a server (even if it's a client as well) you need to install glusterfs-server. > 4) Does starting glusterd lead to the startup of glusterfs-server? When glusterd starts up, it spawns any daemons that "should" be running (according to which volumes are started, which have NFS or replication enabled, etc.) and seem to be missing.