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
 
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