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5 .TH mount.lustre 8 "2006 Jun 15" Lustre "configuration utilities"
7 mount.lustre \- start a Lustre client or target service
10 .BI "mount \-t lustre [\-o " options "] " "device dir"
13 is used to start a Lustre client or target service. This program should not be
14 called directly; rather it is a helper program invoked through
16 as above. Lustre clients and targets are stopped by using the
21 There are two forms for the
23 option, depending on whether a client or a target service is started:
25 .BI <mgsspec>:/<fsname>
26 This is a client mount command to mount the Lustre filesystem named
27 <fsname> by contacting the Management Service at <mgsspec>. The format for
28 <mgsspec> is defined below.
31 This starts the target service defined by the
33 command on the physical disk <disk_device>
36 .BI <mgsspec>:= <mgsnode>[:<mgsnode>]
37 The mgs specification may be a colon-separated list of nodes...
39 .BI <mgsnode>:= <mgsnid>[,<mgsnid>]
40 ...and each node may be specified by a comma-separated list of NIDs.
42 In addition to the standard mount options, Lustre understands the following
53 Enable get/set user xattr
64 In addition to the standard mount options and backing disk type
65 (e.g. LDISKFS) options, Lustre understands the following
70 Only start the MGC (and MGS, if co-located) for a target service, and not the actual service.
73 Start a client or MDT with a (colon-separated) list of known inactive OSTs
76 Abort recovery (targets only)
79 .B mount -t lustre cfs21@tcp0:/testfs /mnt/myfilesystem
80 Start a client for the Lustre filesystem 'testfs' at the mount point
81 /mnt/myfilesystem. The Management Service is running on a node reachable
82 from this client via the nid cfs21@tcp0.
84 .B mount -t lustre /dev/sda1 /mnt/test/mdt
85 Start the Lustre target service on /dev/sda1.
87 .B mount -t lustre -L testfs-MDT0000 -o abort_recov /mnt/test/mdt
88 Start the testfs-MDT0000 service (by using the disk label), but abort the
91 Please report all bugs to Cluster FileSystems, support@clusterfs.com
96 filesystem package and is available from CFS
103 .BR tunefs.lustre (8),