> > > With GlusterFS 3.1 and it's cool management frontend I didn't found a > way to realize such a setup without hacking the volfile. > *hint-to-the-developers* :-) > > On server side in 3.1.x version you can give option like below: option transport-type socket,rdma in protocol/server volume definition in configuration file (inside /etc/glusterd/vols/<VOLNAME>/) But, as you said, the CLI is as of now not smart to understand this. We need to specify either one of the two option. We are working on getting this done by 3.1.3 Regards, Amar PS: if you are willing to tryout the source code, git pull to the HEAD of master branch, and apply the patch http://patches.gluster.com/patch/5986/ and let me know how it works.