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<title>Revisions</title>
- <para>The <emphasis role="italic">Lustre Software Release 2.x Operations Manual</emphasis>
- contains content relevant for all 2.x releases of the Lustre software. <note>
- <para>Updates to the manual are made as the changes become available. When features are
- added with new releases of the Lustre software, they are clearly marked with the
- version of the release in which the functionality was added. Features that are
- deprecated by a release or removed from the software are also marked with the
- version of the release in which they became deprecated or were removed.</para>
- </note></para>
- <para>
+ <para>The Lustre* File System Release 2.x Operations Manual is a community
+maintained work. Versions of the manual are continually built as suggestions for
+changes and improvements arrive. Suggestions for improvements can be submitted
+through the ticketing system maintained at <link
+xl:href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LUDOC">https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LUDOC</link>.
+Instructions for providing a patch to the existing manual are available at:
+<link
+xl:href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_Manual_Changes">http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_Manual_Changes</link>.</para>
+
+ <para>This manual currently covers all the 2.x Lustre software releases.
+Features that are specific to individual releases are identified within the
+table of contents using a short hand notation (i.e. 'L24' is a Lustre software
+release 2.4 specific feature), and within the text using a distinct box. For
+example:</para>
+
+ <para condition='l24'>Lustre software release version 2.4 includes support
+for multiple metadata servers.</para>
+
+ <note xml:id="whichversion"><title>which version?</title>
+ <indexterm><primary>version</primary>
+ <secondary>which version of Lustre am I running?</secondary></indexterm>
+
+ <para>The current version of Lustre
+ that is in use on the client can be found using the command
+ <literal>lctl get_param version</literal>, for example:
+ <screen>$ lctl get_param version
+version=
+lustre: 2.7.59
+kernel: patchless_client
+build: v2_7_59_0-g703195a-CHANGED-3.10.0.lustreopa</screen>
+ </para></note>
+
+ <para>Only the latest revision of this document is made readily available
+because changes are continually arriving. The current and latest revision of
+this manual is available from links maintained at: <link
+xl:href="http://lustre.opensfs.org/documentation/">http://lustre.opensfs.org/documentation/</link>.
+
<revhistory>
<revision>
- <revnumber>2.x</revnumber>
- <date>Ongoing (see note above)</date>
+ <revnumber>0</revnumber>
+ <date>Built on <?dbtimestamp format="d B Y X"?></date>
<author>
<orgname>Intel Corporation</orgname>
</author>
- <revremark>Release of manual for Lustre software release 2.x</revremark>
- </revision>
- <revision>
- <revnumber>2.3</revnumber>
- <date>November 2012</date>
- <author>
- <orgname>Intel Corporation</orgname>
- </author>
- <revremark>Release of manual for Lustre software release 2.3</revremark>
- </revision>
- <revision>
- <revnumber>2.1</revnumber>
- <date>June 2011</date>
- <author>
- <orgname>Whamcloud, Inc</orgname>
- </author>
- <revremark>First release of manual with Lustre software release 2.1</revremark>
+ <revremark>Continuous build of Manual.</revremark>
</revision>
</revhistory>
</para>
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