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linux/drivers/staging/lustre
Linus Torvalds dab363f938 Merge tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big staging tree pull request for 3.19-rc1.

  We continued to delete more lines than were added, always a good
  thing, but not at a huge rate this release, only about 70k lines
  removed overall mostly from removing the horrid bcm driver.

  Lots of normal staging driver cleanups and fixes all over the place,
  well over a thousand of them, the shortlog shows all the horrid
  details.

  The "contentious" thing here is the movement of the Android binder
  code out of staging into the "real" part of the kernel.  This is code
  that has been stable for a few years now and is working as-is in the
  tens of millions of devices with no issues.  Yes, the code is horrid,
  and the userspace api leaves a lot to be desired, but it's not going
  to change due to legacy issues that we have no control over.  Because
  so many devices and companies rely on this, and the code is stable,
  might as well promote it out of staging.

  This was all discussed at the Linux Plumbers conference, and everyone
  participating agreed that this was the best way forward.

  There is work happening to replace the binder code with something new
  that is happening right now, but I don't expect to see the results of
  that work for another year at the earliest.  If that ever happens, and
  Android switches over to it, I'll gladly remove this version.

  As for maintainers, I'll be glad to maintain this code, I've been
  doing it for the past few years with no problems.  I'll send a
  MAINTAINERS entry for it before 3.19-final is out, still need to talk
  to the Google developers about if they are willing to help with it or
  not, last I checked they were, which was good.

  All of these patches have been in linux-next for a while with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1382 commits)
  Staging: slicoss: Fix long line issues in slicoss.c
  staging: rtl8712: remove unnecessary else after return
  staging: comedi: change some printk calls to pr_err
  staging: rtl8723au: hal: Removed the extra semicolon
  lustre: Deletion of unnecessary checks before three function calls
  staging: lustre: fix sparse warnings: static function declaration
  staging: lustre: fixed sparse warnings related to static declarations
  staging: unisys: remove duplicate header
  staging: unisys: remove unneeded structure
  staging: ft1000 : replace __attribute ((__packed__) with __packed
  drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Include "asm/unaligned.h" instead of "access_ok.h" in "rtl819x_BAProc.c"
  Drivers:staging:rtl8192e: Fixed checkpatch warning
  Drivers:staging:clocking-wizard: Added a newline
  staging: clocking-wizard: check for a valid clk_name pointer
  staging: rtl8723au: Hal_InitPGData() avoid unnecessary typecasts
  staging: rtl8723au: _DisableAnalog(): Avoid zero-init variables unnecessarily
  staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _ResetDigitalProcedure1()
  staging: rtl8723au: _ResetDigitalProcedure1_92C() reduce code obfuscation
  staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB()
  staging: rtl8723au: _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB8192C(): Reduce code obfuscation
  ...
2014-12-15 18:06:13 -08:00
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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/