Dear Lustre users, CFS is pleased to announce an updated version of the LustreR 1.4.6 Operations Manual for LustreR 1.4.6. The latest version of the manual is always available in both PDF and HTML format on https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/LustreDocumentation The PDFs are available in 2 paper sizes - Lustre 1.4.6 manual V1.26(A4) is in A4 size, and Lustre 1.4.6 manual V1.26(Letter) is in Letter size. If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommended edits to the manual, please email us at doc-request@clusterfs.com. The CFS Documentation Team Improvements in version 32: 1. Edited Chapter I - 1. A Cluster With Lustre to improve readability 2. Added information on LNET lnd interface number indexing in 3.2.2 Module Parameters in Chapter II - 3. Configuring Lustre Network 3. Added 9.2 Disk Performance Measurement in Chapter II - 9. RAID 4. Added Chapter V - 6. System Limits Other improvements done in the earlier versions from version 27 to version 31 are - 1. Deleted Chapter V - 6 Elevator and introduced the information in Chapter II - 1 Prerequisites as 1.4.3 Proper Kernel I/O Elevator 2. Included the ''lfs df'' command in the Synopsis section of Chapter V - 1 User Utilities 3. Edited the notes on ''asyncdel'' in Chapter V - 4 System Configuration Utilities 4. Introduced information on Liblustre Network parameters in 2.2.2 Module Parameters under Chapter II - 2 Configuring Lustre Network 5. Removed 1.3.2 obd survey from Chapter III - 1 Lustre I/O Kit 6. Added information of LNET_ROUTES setting of Liblustre client in section 2.2.2 Module Parameters of Chapter II - 2 Configuring Lustre Network 7. Inserted the information on order of LNET lines in section 4.1.1 Modprobe.conf of Chapter II - 4 More Complicated Configurations 8. Changed the format of examples and the reference of ''RHEL'' to ''Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3 Update 3'' in Chapter II - 1 Prerequisites - 1.4.3 Proper Kernel I/O Elevator 9. Added a note on loopback interface in Chapter II - 2 Configuring Lustre Network - 2.2.2 Module Parameters 10.Gave the full pathname instead of * in Chapter III - 2 Lustre Proc - 2.2.1 Client I/O RPC Stream Tunables 11.Changed ''portals'' to ''lnet'' in Chapter III - 2 Lustre Proc - 2.4 Debug Support 12.Corrected the setstripe command in 1.1.1 Synopsis and elaborated information on Stripe Size, Stripe Start and Stripe Count in 1.1.3 Examples in the Chapter V - 1 User Utilities 13.Added a note on loopback interface in Chapter V - 3 Config Files and Module Parameters - 3.2.1.1 Network Topology 14.Added a sample output for invoking lconf on the OST node in Chapter V - 4 System Configuration Utilities - 4.2.3 Examples 15.Added Chapter II - 9 Bonding 16.Added sample output of peer list for lctl in Chapter V - 4 System Configuration Utilities. 17.Added sample output of setstripe and getstripe for lfs in Chapter V - 1 User Utilities. 18.Added a note on the pathnames of /proc variables under 2.2.1 Client I/O RPC Stream Tunables in Chapter III - 2 LustreProc. In the same chapter changed ''portals'' to ''lnet'' all over and ''/proc/fs/ldiskfs/xxxx/mb_history'' to ''/proc/fs/ldiskfs/loop0/mb_history'' in 2.2.4 mballoc history. 19.Deleted 2 hanging lines and corrected the spelling of ''passive'' in 5.1.3 Heartbeat in Chapter II - 5 Failover 20.In the HTML version, updated the section 3.1 of Chapter III - 3 Lustre Tuning as per the OO and PDF versions. 21.Added Chapter II - 2. Lustre Installation, and changed the numbering of subsequent chapters in Part II. 22.Edited Chapter II - 1. Prerequisites for proper flow of information considering insertion of Chapter II - 2. Lustre Installation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.clusterfs.com/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20060728/80dfae5a/attachment.html