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<title>Preface</title>
- <para>The <emphasis role="italic">Lustre* Operations Manual</emphasis> provides detailed
- information and procedures to install, configure and tune a Lustre file system. The manual
- covers topics such as failover, quotas, striping, and bonding. This manual also contains
- troubleshooting information and tips to improve the operation and performance of a Lustre file
- system.</para>
+ <para>The <emphasis role="italic">Lustre<superscript>*</superscript>Software Release 2.x
+ Operations Manual</emphasis> provides detailed information and procedures to install,
+ configure and tune a Lustre file system. The manual covers topics such as failover, quotas,
+ striping, and bonding. This manual also contains troubleshooting information and tips to improve
+ the operation and performance of a Lustre file system.</para>
<section remap="h2">
<title>About this Document</title>
<para>This document is maintained by Intel in Docbook format. The
<link xl:href="http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation">http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link>. </para>
<section remap="h2">
- <title>UNIX Commands</title>
- <para>This document may not contain information about basic UNIX* operating system commands
- and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring
- devices. Refer to the following for this information:</para>
+ <title>UNIX<superscript>*</superscript> Commands</title>
+ <para>This document may not contain information about basic UNIX<superscript>*</superscript>
+ operating system commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the
+ system, and configuring devices. Refer to the following for this information:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para> Software documentation that you received with your system</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para> Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* documentation, which is at: <link
- xl:href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/index.html"
+ <para> Red Hat<superscript>*</superscript> Enterprise Linux<superscript>*</superscript>
+ documentation, which is at: <link xl:href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/index.html"
>http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/index.html</link></para>
- <note><para> The Lustre client module is available for many different Linux* versions and distributions.
- Red Hat Enterprise is the best supported and tested platform for Lustre servers. </para></note>
+ <note><para> The Lustre client module is available for many different Linux<superscript>*</superscript>
+ versions and distributions. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution is the best
+ supported and tested platform for Lustre servers. </para></note>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section remap="h2">
<title>Shell Prompts</title>
+ <para>The shell prompt used in the example text indicates whether a
+ command can or should be executed by a regular user, or whether it
+ requires superuser permission to run. Also, the machine type is often
+ included in the prompt to indicate whether the command should be run
+ on a client node, on an MDS node, an OSS node, or the MGS node.</para>
+ <para>Some examples are listed below, but other prompt combinations
+ are also used as needed for the example.</para>
<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colwidth="50*"/>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>
- <para> C shell</para>
+ <para> Regular user</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> <emphasis>machine-name</emphasis>%</para>
+ <para> <prompt>machine$</prompt></para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <para> C shell superuser</para>
+ <para> Superuser (root)</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> <emphasis>machine-name</emphasis>#</para>
+ <para> <prompt>machine#</prompt></para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <para> Bourne shell and Korn shell</para>
+ <para> Regular user on the client</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> <prompt>$</prompt></para>
+ <para> <prompt>client$</prompt></para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <para> Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser</para>
+ <para> Superuser on the MDS</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> <prompt>#</prompt></para>
+ <para> <prompt>mds#</prompt></para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <para> Superuser on the OSS</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para> <prompt>oss#</prompt></para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <para> Superuser on the MGS</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para> <prompt>mgs#</prompt></para>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</section>
<section remap="h2">
<title>Related Documentation</title>
- <para>The documents listed as online are available at:</para>
- <para><link xl:href="http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation">http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link></para>
<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="4">
<colspec colname="c1" colwidth="25*"/>
<colspec colname="c2" colwidth="25*"/>
- <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="25*"/>
- <colspec colname="c4" colwidth="25*"/>
+ <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="15*"/>
+ <colspec colname="c4" colwidth="35*"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>
</entry>
<entry>
<para>
- <emphasis>Lustre* 2.0 Release Notes</emphasis></para>
+ <emphasis>Lustre Software Release 2.x Change Logs</emphasis></para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> PDF</para>
+ <para> Wiki page</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> Online</para>
+ <para> Online at <link
+ xl:href="http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation"
+ >http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link></para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
</entry>
<entry>
<para>
- <emphasis>Lustre* 2.0 Operations Manual</emphasis></para>
+ <emphasis>Lustre Software Release 2.x Operations Manual</emphasis></para>
</entry>
<entry>
<para> PDF</para>
<para>HTML</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> Online</para>
+ <para> Online at <link
+ xl:href="http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation"
+ >http://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link></para>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
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