Dear Lustre users, CFS is pleased to announce that LustreR 1.4.6 Operations Manual is now upgraded to LustreR 1.4.7 Operations Manual for LustreR 1.4.7. 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 1.4.7 manual V1.35(A4) is in A4 size, and Lustre 1.4.7 manual V1.35(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 35: 1. Changed the version and date 2. Changed the Title from "Lustre 1.4.6 Operations Manual" to "Lustre 1.4.7 Operations Manual" 3. Changed the mentions of 1.4.6 to 1.4.7 wherever applicable 4. Updated following chapters - i. Chapter I - 1. A Cluster with Lustre ii. Chapter I - 2. Understanding Lustre Networking iii. Chapter II - 1. Prerequisites iv. Chapter II - 2. Lustre Installation (Corrected information in "Patch Series Selection") v. Chapter II - 3. Configuring Lustre Network vi. Chapter II - 4. Configuring Lustre - Examples vii. Chapter II - 5. More Complicated Configurations viii. Chapter II - 6. Failover (Included "Instructions to setup Failover with Heartbeat V1 and V2") ix. Chapter II - 7. Configuring Quotas x. Chapter II - 8. Upgrading from 1.4.5 xi. Chapter II - 9. RAID xii. Chapter III - 1. Lustre I/O Kit xiii. Chapter III - 2. Lustre Proc (full path names) xiv. Chapter III - 3. Lustre Tuning (Added information on OST threads) xv. Chapter IV - 1. Free Space and Quotas xvi. Chapter IV - 2. Striping and I/O (Introduced information on "MDS Space Utilization") xvii. Chapter IV - 4. Other Lustre Operating Tips xviii. Chapter V - 1. User Utilities (Edited description of "find") xix. Chapter V - 4. System Configuration Utilities (Changed the references of Portals to LNET wherever applicable) Other improvements done in the earlier versions (33 and 34) are - 1. Replaced ''Portals'' with LNET in section 2.3 of Chapter I - 2. Understanding Lustre Networking 2. Upgraded the output of llmount.sh in section 2.2.1, and changed the format of the example in section 2.4.2 in Chapter II - 2. Lustre Installation 3. Added sample graphs of Read and Write Performance as section 9.2.1 in Chapter II - 9. RAID Also, edited point no. 10 of section 9.2 for correct description of mdadm in Chapter II - 9. RAID 4. Explained how to set the debug level and added a note in section 2.4 of Chapter III - 2. Lustre Proc 5. Replaced ''Portals'' with LNET in section 4.3.2 of Chapter V - 4. System Configuration Utilities 6. Updated Chapter V - 1. User Utilities as per the latest LFS man page 7. Added a table on network types and supported software stacks under 3.2.1.1 in Chapter V - 3. Config Files and Module Parameters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.clusterfs.com/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20060913/58344aa6/attachment-0001.html