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5 .TH Lustre 7 "2006 Jun 15" Lustre "A high-performance cluster file system"
9 A high-performance file system designed for clusters.
12 is a high-performance, massively-scalable, POSIX-compliant network file system
13 designed for the world's largest high-performance compute clusters.
15 Lustre filesystems are made up of multiple services typically distributed
16 across multiple nodes. Lustre clients can contact these server nodes over
17 multiple high-speed network fabrics via LNET, the Lustre NETworking
18 system. Clients then present the filesystem at a mount point to userspace.
20 A filesystem is comprised of a
22 , MetaData Target, which stores directory and file meta-information such as
23 file ownership, timestamps, access permissions, etc, and a
26 , Object Storage Targets, which hold the file data in one or more objects.
27 There is typically not a 1:1 mapping of OST objects and what is presented
28 as a file on a Lustre client.
30 Lustre and LNET are implemented as a series of kernel modules, for both
31 servers and clients. LNET networks are defined in the modprobe.conf file on
32 all nodes. Lustre is started on the clients and servers using the
39 Format a physical disk for use as a Lustre server's backend storage (aka
43 Modify configuration information on a Lustre target disk.
48 that starts Lustre servers and clients mounts the client filesystem.
51 A low-level interface to control various aspects of Lustre
54 A user-level interface to control Lustre-specific information for
57 Format multiple Lustre targets simultaneously from definitions in a CSV
60 Please report all bugs http://bugs.whamcloud.com/
64 filesystem package is available via
66 http://downloads.whamcloud.com/
69 .BR tunefs.lustre (8),
77 .BR ll_recover_lost_found_objs (8),
81 .BR ll_decode_filter_fid (8),