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Message-Id: <1408295631-11185-1-git-send-email-green@linuxhacker.ru>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:13:51 -0400
From: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
Subject: [PATCH] lustre: Add some basic documentation
This adds drivers/staging/lustre/README.txt with some
basic information about Lustre and how to use it.
Eventually this will need to move to Documentation/filesystems/lustre.txt
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/README.txt b/drivers/staging/lustre/README.txt
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+Lustre Parallel Filesystem Client
+=================================
+
+The Lustre file system is an open-source, parallel file system
+that supports many requirements of leadership class HPC simulation
+environments.
+Born from from a research project at Carnegie Mellon University,
+the Lustre file system is a widely-used option in HPC.
+The Lustre file system provides a POSIX compliant file system interface,
+can scale to thousands of clients, petabytes of storage and
+hundreds of gigabytes per second of I/O bandwidth.
+
+Unlike shared disk storage cluster filesystems (e.g. OCFS2, GFS, GPFS),
+Lustre has independent Metadata and Data servers that clients can access
+in parallel to maximize performance.
+
+In order to use Lustre client you will need to download lustre client
+tools from
+https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/latest-feature-release/
+the package name is lustre-client.
+
+You will need to install and configure your Lustre servers separately.
+
+Mount Syntax
+============
+After you installed the lustre-client tools including mount.lustre binary
+you can mount your Lustre filesystem with:
+
+mount -t lustre mgs:/fsname mnt
+
+where mgs is the host name or ip address of your Lustre MGS(management service)
+fsname is the name of the filesystem you would like to mount.
+
+
+Mount Options
+=============
+
+ noflock
+ Disable posix file locking (Applications trying to use
+ the functionality will get ENOSYS)
+
+ localflock
+ Enable local flock support, using only client-local flock
+ (faster, for applications that require flock but do not run
+ on multiple nodes).
+
+ flock
+ Enable cluster-global posix file locking coherent across all
+ client nodes.
+
+ user_xattr, nouser_xattr
+ Support "user." extended attributes (or not)
+
+ user_fid2path, nouser_fid2path
+ Enable FID to path translation by regular users (or not)
+
+ checksum, nochecksum
+ Verify data consistency on the wire and in memory as it passes
+ between the layers (or not).
+
+ lruresize, nolruresize
+ Allow lock LRU to be controlled by memory pressure on the server
+ (or only 100 (default, controlled by lru_size proc parameter) locks
+ per CPU per server on this client).
+
+ lazystatfs, nolazystatfs
+ Do not block in statfs() if some of the servers are down.
+
+ 32bitapi
+ Shrink inode numbers to fit into 32 bits. This is necessary
+ if you plan to reexport Lustre filesystem from this client via
+ NFSv4.
+
+ verbose, noverbose
+ Enable mount/umount console messages (or not)
+
+More Information
+================
+You can get more information at
+OpenSFS website: http://lustre.opensfs.org/about/
+Intel HPDD wiki: https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com
+
+Out of tree Lustre client and server code is available at:
+http://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git
+
+Latest binary packages:
+http://lustre.opensfs.org/download-lustre/
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