This might be important. Re: Joe, from my other node offline thread earlier today: > As it turns out, reading further that error you're seeing comes from glusterfsd.service (not glusterd.service) > which shouldn't even be enabled unless you're trying to use old legacy volfiles from 3.0. The "parsing the > volfile failed" was spurious, as you discovered. I'm using glusterfs-3.4-beta3, packaged right in with Fedora 19. Check this out - this is the config file that drives what happens when you do: systemctl start glusterd.service Notice how glusterd wants glusterfsd. I remember wondering, why are there two of them? Now I guess I know. Is this a Fedora bug? Hopefully the emailer won't butcher the pasted in output below. [root at chicago-fw1 system]# pwd /usr/lib/systemd/system [root at chicago-fw1 system]# more glusterd.service [Unit] Description=GlusterFS an clustered file-system server Wants=glusterfsd.service After=network.target rpcbind.service [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/glusterd.pid LimitNOFILE=65536 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/glusterd -p /run/glusterd.pid [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target [root at chicago-fw1 system]# rpm -qa | grep gluster glusterfs-fuse-3.4.0-0.6.beta3.fc19.x86_64 glusterfs-3.4.0-0.6.beta3.fc19.x86_64 glusterfs-server-3.4.0-0.6.beta3.fc19.x86_64 glusterfs-geo-replication-3.4.0-0.6.beta3.fc19.x86_64 glusterfs-api-3.4.0-0.6.beta3.fc19.x86_64 [root at chicago-fw1 system]# - Greg