Preface

The LustreSoftware Release 2.x Operations Manual* 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.

About this Document

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UNIX^* Commands

This document does not contain information about basic UNIX^* operating system commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices. Refer to the following for this information:

• Software documentation that you received with your system
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation, which is at: https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/index.html

  Note

  The Lustre client module is available for many different Linux^* versions and distributions. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution is the best supported and tested platform for Lustre servers.

Shell Prompts

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.

Some examples are listed below, but other prompt combinations are also used as needed for the example.

Related Documentation

Documentation and Support

These web sites provide additional resources:

• Documentation https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation https://www.lustre.org
• Support https://jira.whamcloud.com/