Works as intended when the readline library is installed and glusterfs is built with that.
The sequence: [root@centos5 gluster-master]# /home/shehjart/glusterfsd-master/sbin/gluster gluster> help volume info [all|<VOLNAME>] - list information of all volumes volume create <NEW-VOLNAME> [stripe <COUNT>] [replica <COUNT>] [transport <tcp|rdma>] <NEW-BRICK> ... - create a new volume of specified type with mentioned bricks volume delete <VOLNAME> - delete volume specified by <VOLNAME> volume start <VOLNAME> - start volume specified by <VOLNAME> volume stop <VOLNAME> [force] - stop volume specified by <VOLNAME> volume rename <VOLNAME> <NEW-VOLNAME> - rename volume <VOLNAME> to <NEW-VOLNAME> volume add-brick <VOLNAME> [(replica <COUNT>)|(stripe <COUNT>)] <NEW-BRICK> ... - add brick to volume <VOLNAME> volume remove-brick <VOLNAME> [(replica <COUNT>)|(stripe <COUNT>)] <BRICK> ... - remove brick from volume <VOLNAME> volume rebalance <VOLNAME> start - start rebalance of volume <VOLNAME> volume rebalance <VOLNAME> stop - stop rebalance of volume <VOLNAME> volume rebalance <VOLNAME> status - rebalance status of volume <VOLNAME> volume replace-brick <VOLNAME> (<BRICK> <NEW-BRICK>) start|pause|abort|status - replace-brick operations volume set-transport <VOLNAME> <TRANSPORT-TYPE> [<TRANSPORT-TYPE>] ... - set transport type for volume <VOLNAME> volume set <VOLNAME> <KEY> <VALUE> - set options for volume <VOLNAME> volume help - display help for the volume command volume log filename <VOLNAME> [BRICK] <PATH> - set the log file for corresponding volume/brick volume log locate <VOLNAME> [BRICK] - locate the log file for corresponding volume/brick volume log rotate <VOLNAME> [BRICK] - rotate the log file for corresponding volume/brick peer probe <HOSTNAME> - probe peer specified by <HOSTNAME> peer detach <HOSTNAME> - detach peer specified by <HOSTNAME> peer status - list status of peers peer help - Help command for peer quit - quit help - display command options ############################################## Then exits without allowing for more commands. ############################################## [root@centos5 gluster-master]#