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...CLI USAGE I love the new CLI - it is great, it will create the directories on all nodes for you - so from here on in, you can use the documentation to create the storage you require by starting with assigning your storage pool: http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Creating_Trusted_Storage_Pools To simplify, do this from 1 node with glusterd running on all nodes... do not try to add the node you are on, it is automatically there - and as long as the UIDs are unique as mentioned above, then you should be good to go. As I said above, the CLI is great, so there is no need to manually mkdir...