I followed following instructions to upgrade existing gluster cluster 3.2.7 to 3.4 gluster on Ubuntu 13.04 http://vbellur.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/upgrading-to-glusterfs-3-3/ I stopped all glusterd and client processes first. I had to copy files from /etc/glusterd/ to /var/lib/glusterd as the location has changed in 3.4 I also had to do the following to be able to start the volume after upgrade: vol=datavol; brick=/home/glusterfs; setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.volume-id -v 0x$(grep volume-id /var/lib/glusterd/vols/$vol/info | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/-//g') $brick All old nodes were upgraded to packages from the repository ii? glusterfs-client??????????????????? 3.4.0final-ubuntu1~raring1?????? amd64??????? clustered file-system (client package) ii? glusterfs-common??????????????????? 3.4.0final-ubuntu1~raring1?????? amd64??????? GlusterFS common libraries and translator modules ii? glusterfs-server??????????????????? 3.4.0final-ubuntu1~raring1?????? amd64??????? clustered file-system (server package) Now when I try to add a new fresh Ubuntu 13.04 node with same packages ii? glusterfs-client??????????????????? 3.4.0final-ubuntu1~raring1?????? amd64??????? clustered file-system (client package) ii? glusterfs-common??????????????????? 3.4.0final-ubuntu1~raring1?????? amd64??????? GlusterFS common libraries and translator modules ii? glusterfs-server??????????????????? 3.4.0final-ubuntu1~raring1?????? amd64??????? clustered file-system (server package)