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lustre-utils_1.6.4.2-1_i386 
NAME
Lustre - a high-performance cluster file system
SYNOPSIS
A high-performance file system designed for clusters.
DESCRIPTION
Lustre® is a high-performance, massively-scalable, POSIX-compliant
network file system designed for the world’s largest high-performance
compute clusters. Lustre is under active development from Cluster
FileSystems (http://clusterfs.com).
Lustre filesystems are made up of multiple servers typically
distributed across multiple nodes. Lustre clients can contact these
server nodes over multiple high-speed network fabrics via LNET, the
Lustre NETworking system. Clients then present the filesystem at a
mount point.
A filesystem is comprised of a MDT , MetaData Target, which stores
directory and file meta-information, and a series of OSTs , Object
Storage Targets, which hold the file data. There is typically not a
1:1 mapping of a file on disk and what is presented as a file on a
Lustre client.
Lustre and LNET are implemented as a series of kernel modules, for both
servers and clients. LNET networks are defined in the modprobe.conf
file on all nodes. Lustre and LNET make extensive use of /proc files
for making system data available, for example
/proc/sys/lnet/nis
to show the local LNET Network Interfaces.
/proc/fs/lustre/devices
to show locally running Lustre objects.
COMMANDS
mkfs.lustre(8)
Format a physical disk for use as a Lustre server’s backend
storage (aka target).
tunefs.lustre(8)
Modify configuration information on a Lustre target disk.
mount.lustre(8)
A helper program for mount(8) that starts Lustre servers and
clients.
lctl(8)
A low-level interface to control various aspects of Lustre
lfs(1) A user-level interface to control Lustre-specific information
for individual files. lustre_config Format multiple Lustre
targets simultaneously from definitions in a CSV file.
BUGS
Please report all bugs to Cluster FileSystems, support@clusterfs.com
AVAILABILITY
The Lustre(7) filesystem package is available from CFS
http://clusterfs.com
SEE ALSO
mkfs.lustre(8), tunefs.lustre(8), mount.lustre(8), lctl(8), lfs(1)
Lustre(7)