xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xml:id="userutilities">
<title xml:id="userutilities.title">User Utilities</title>
<para>This chapter describes user utilities.</para>
- <section xml:id="dbdoclet.50438206_94597">
+ <section xml:id="userutilities.lfs">
<title>
<indexterm>
<primary>lfs</primary>
<literal>-v</literal> option with
<literal>lfs quota</literal>.</para>
</note>
- <para condition="l24">
- The <literal>quotacheck</literal>, <literal>quotaon</literal> and <literal>quotaoff</literal>
- sub-commands were deprecated in the Lustre 2.4 release, and removed completely in
- the Lustre 2.8 release. See <xref linkend="enabling_disk_quotas"/> for details on
+ <para condition="l28">
+ The <literal>quotacheck</literal>, <literal>quotaon</literal> and
+ <literal>quotaoff</literal> sub-commands were deprecated in the
+ Lustre 2.4 release, and removed completely in the Lustre 2.8 release.
+ See <xref linkend="enabling_disk_quotas"/> for details on
configuring and checking quotas.
</para>
</section>
guarantee that
<literal>atime</literal> is kept coherent across the
cluster.)</para>
- <para>OSTs store a transient
+ <para>OSTs by default only hold a transient
<literal>atime</literal> that is updated when clients do read
requests. Permanent
- <literal>atime</literal> is written to the MDS when the file is
+ <literal>atime</literal> is written to the MDT when the file is
closed. However, on-disk atime is only updated if it is more
than 60 seconds old (
- <literal>/proc/fs/lustre/mds/*/max_atime_diff</literal>). The
- Lustre software considers the latest
- <literal>atime</literal> from all OSTs. If a
+ <literal>mdd.*.atime_diff</literal>).
+ </para>
+ <para condition='l2D'>In Lustre 2.14, it is possible to set
+ the OSTs to persistently store atime with each object, in
+ order to get more accurate persistent atime updates for files
+ that are open for a long time via the similarly-named
+ <literal>obdfilter.*.atime_diff</literal> parameter.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The client considers the latest <literal>atime</literal> from
+ all OSTs and MDTs. If a
<literal>setattr</literal> is set by user, then it is updated on
- both the MDS and OST, allowing the
+ both the MDT and OST, allowing the
<literal>atime</literal> to go backward.</para>
</entry>
</row>
<section remap="h5">
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <xref linkend="dbdoclet.50438206_94597" />
+ <xref linkend="userutilities.lfs" />
</para>
</section>
</section>
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</section>
</chapter>
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