Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.4/html-single/administration_guide/index#Promoting_a_Slave_to_Master Section Number and Name: IV. Manage - Chapter 10. Managing Geo-replication -- 10.7. Disaster Recovery --- 10.7.1. Failover: Promoting a Slave to Master Describe the issue: In the second point the command seem to be misaligned: 2. Run the following commands on the slave machine to promote it to be the master: # gluster volume set VOLNAME geo-replication.indexing on # gluster volume set VOLNAME changelog on For example # gluster volume set slave-vol geo-replication.indexing on volume set: success # gluster volume set slave-vol changelog on volume set: success Suggestions for improvement: Remove the extra space and align the commands as shown below. 2. Run the following commands on the slave machine to promote it to be the master: # gluster volume set VOLNAME geo-replication.indexing on # gluster volume set VOLNAME changelog on For example # gluster volume set slave-vol geo-replication.indexing on volume set: success # gluster volume set slave-vol changelog on volume set: success Additional information: