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<title>Preface</title>
- <para>This operations manual provides detailed information and procedures to install, configure and tune the Lustre file system. The manual covers topics such as failover, quotas, striping and bonding. The Lustre manual also contains troubleshooting information and tips to improve Lustre operation and performance.</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 Whamcloud, Inc in Docbook format. The canonical version is available at <link xl:href="http://wiki.whamcloud.com">http://wiki.whamcloud.com/</link>. </para>
+ <para>This document is maintained by Whamcloud in Docbook format. The
+ canonical version is available at
+ <link xl:href="http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation">http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link>. </para>
<section remap="h2">
- <title>UNIX Commands</title>
- <para>This document might not contain information about basic UNIX 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> Oracle Solaris Operating System documentation, which is at:</para>
+ <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<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>
- <para><link xl:href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html</link></para>
</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.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation">http://wiki.whamcloud.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>
<para> Latest information</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> <emphasis>Lustre 2.0 Release Notes</emphasis></para>
+ <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.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation"
+ >http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link></para>
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<para> Service</para>
</entry>
<entry>
- <para> <emphasis>Lustre 2.0 Operations Manual</emphasis></para>
+ <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.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation"
+ >http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link></para>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</informaltable>
</section>
<section remap="h2">
- <title>Documentation, Support, and Training</title>
+ <title>Documentation and Support</title>
<para>These web sites provide additional resources:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para> Documentation <link xl:href="http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation">http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para> Support <link xl:href="http://www.whamcloud.com/">http://www.whamcloud.com/</link></para>
+ <para> Documentation
+ <link xl:href="http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation">
+ http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation</link>
+ <link xl:href="http://www.lustre.org">
+ http://www.lustre.org</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para> Training <link xl:href="http://www.whamcloud.com/">http://www.whamcloud.com/</link></para>
+ <para> Support <link xl:href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/">https://jira.whamcloud.com/</link></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
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+ <xi:include href="Revision.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
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