.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Gluster, Inc. .\" This file is part of GlusterFS. .\" .\" GlusterFS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published .\" by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, .\" or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" GlusterFS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but .\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU .\" General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see " . .\" .\" .TH Gluster 8 "Gluster command line utility" "07 March 2011" "Gluster Inc." .SH NAME gluster - Gluster Console Manager (command line utility) .SH SYNOPSIS .B gluster .PP To run the program and display gluster prompt: .PP .B gluster .PP (or) .PP To specify a command directly: .PP .B gluster .I [commands] [options] .SH DESCRIPTION The Gluster Console Manager is a command line utility for elastic volume management. You can run the gluster command on any export server. The command enables administrators to perform cloud operations, such as creating, expanding, shrinking, rebalancing, and migrating volumes without needing to schedule server downtime. .SH COMMANDS .SS "Basic Volume Commands" .PP .TP \fB\ volume info [all|] \fR Display information about all volumes, or the specified volume. .TP \fB\ volume list \fR List the available volumes. .TP \fB\ volume create [stripe ] [replica ] [transport ] ... \fR Create a new volume of the specified type using the specified bricks and transport type (the default transport type is tcp). To create a volume with both transports (tcp and rdma), give 'transport tcp,rdma' as an option. .TP \fB\ volume delete \fR Delete the specified volume. .TP \fB\ volume start \fR Start the specified volume. .TP \fB\ volume stop [force] \fR Stop the specified volume. .TP \fB\ volume set