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Linus Torvalds eea3a00264 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc bits

 - add ability to run /sbin/reboot at reboot time

 - printk/vsprintf changes

 - fiddle with seq_printf() return value

* akpm: (114 commits)
  parisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  lru_cache: remove use of seq_printf return value
  tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  proc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  s390: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris fasttimer: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris: remove use of seq_printf return value
  openrisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ARM: plat-pxa: remove use of seq_printf return value
  nios2: cpuinfo: remove use of seq_printf return value
  microblaze: mb: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  rtc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  power: wakeup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  x86: mtrr: if: remove use of seq_printf return value
  linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK
  MAINTAINERS: CREDITS: remove Stefano Brivio from B43
  .mailmap: add Ricardo Ribalda
  CREDITS: add Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
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include/linux staging/lustre: use __printf(...) instead of __attribute__(format(__printf, ...)) 2015-03-18 10:41:29 +01:00
lnet staging: lustre: orthography & coding style 2015-04-05 18:43:35 +02:00
lustre Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-04-15 16:39:15 -07:00
Kconfig
Makefile staging: lustre: remove top level ccflags variable 2014-07-11 20:51:16 -07:00
README.txt lustre: Add some basic documentation 2014-08-30 11:53:54 -07:00
TODO staging: lustre: remove hpdd-discuss list from TODO file 2014-07-12 18:01:57 -07:00

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/