Instructions for building, configuring and running Lustre: https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Building+Lustre+from+Source and https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Getting+started+with+Lustre. Instructions for contributing patches for Lustre: https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Submitting+Changes and https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Using+Gerrit The Lustre Coding Style Guidelines can be found at: https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Coding+Guidelines The Lustre Test Script Style Guidelines can be found at: https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Test+Coding+Style In order to improve the quality of patches submitted to the Lustre tree, it is possible to automatically check every patch and commit against the Lustre Coding Guidelines. To do this, run in the top-level lustre/ tree: cd .git/hooks ln -s ../../contrib/git-hooks/{prepare-,}commit-msg ./ cd ../..