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+Getting started
+===================================
+Installing Weed-Fs
+###################################
+
+Download a proper version from  `WeedFS download page <https://bintray.com/chrislusf/Weed-FS/weed/>`_.
+
+Decompress the downloaded file. You will only find one executable file, either "weed" on most systems or "weed.exe" on windows.
+
+Put the file "weed" to all related computers, in any folder you want. Use 
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed -h
+
+to check available options.
+
+Set up Weed Master
+*********************************
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed master -h # to check available options
+
+If no replication is required, this will be enough. The "mdir" option is to configure a folder where the generated sequence file ids are saved.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed master -mdir="."
+
+
+If you need replication, you would also set the configuration file. By default it is "/etc/weedfs/weedfs.conf" file. The example can be found in RackDataCenterAwareReplication
+
+Set up Weed Volume Server
+*********************************
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed volume -h # to check available options.
+
+Usually volume servers are spread on different computers. They can have different disk space, or even different operating system.
+
+Usually you would need to specify the available disk space, the Weed Master location, and the storage folder.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed volume -max=100 -mserver="localhost:9333" -dir="./data"
+
+Cheat Sheet: Setup One Master Server and One Volume Server
+**************************************************************
+
+Actually, forget about previous commands. You can setup one master server and one volume server in one shot:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed server -dir="./data"
+	# same, just specifying the default values
+	# use "weed server -h" to find out more
+	./weed server -master.port=9333 -volume.port=8080 -dir="./data"
+
+Testing Weed-Fs
+###################################
+
+With the master and volume server up, now what? Let's pump in a lot of files into the system!
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+	
+	./weed upload -dir="/some/big/folder"
+
+This command would recursively upload all files. Or you can specify what files you want to include.
+
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	./weed upload -dir="/some/big/folder" -include=*.txt
+
+Then, you can simply check "du -m -s /some/big/folder" to see the actual disk usage by OS, and compare it with the file size under "/data". Usually if you are uploading a lot of textual files, the consumed disk size would be much smaller since textual files are gzipped automatically.
+
+Now you can use your tools to hit weed-fs as hard as you can.
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 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   gettingstarted
 
 
 Indices and tables