Without having checked through the cvs is this the preferred method of implementing Lustre? I am RTFM at every opportunity and implementing on my boxes here to develop a growing cluster. So far I have the latest 1.6 installed but not really working on one machine. Permanent disk data: Target: spfs-MDTffff Index: unassigned Lustre FS: spfs Mount type: ldiskfs Flags: 0x75 (MDT MGS needs_index first_time update ) Persistent mount opts: errors=remount-ro,iopen_nopriv,user_xattr Parameters: mdt.group_upcall=/usr/sbin/l_getgroups checking for existing Lustre data: not found device size = 953869MB 2 6 18 formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/sdb target name spfs-MDTffff 4k blocks 0 options -J size=400 -i 4096 -I 512 -q -O dir_inde mkfs_cmd = mkfs.ext2 -j -b 4096 -L spfs-MDTffff -J size=400 -i Writing CONFIGS/mountdata [root at localhost ~]# mkdir -p /mnt/test/mdt You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root at localhost ~]# mount -t lustre /dev/sdb /mnt/test/mdt [root at localhost ~]# cat /proc/fs/lustre/devices 0 UP mgs MGS MGS 5 1 UP mgc MGC192.168.118.129 at tcp e2dcc535-a2e8-0eed-89ef-0a995b 2 UP mdt MDS MDS_uuid 3 3 UP lov spfs-mdtlov spfs-mdtlov_UUID 4 4 UP mds spfs-MDT0000 spfs-MDT0000_UUID 3 Fun stuff. Installed the [root at localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh lustre_admin-2-0_2007_09_28_Friday_09h49m25s.noarch.rpm although I haven''t figured out how to start it yet. Wanting to install the kernel, modules and tools for the subject matter assuming it is the way to proceed and bypass 1.6 branch.