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diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/README.txt b/drivers/staging/lustre/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0676243eea9e..000000000000 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,83 +0,0 @@ -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 the "lustre-client" -package that contains the userspace tools from http://lustre.org/download/ - -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 the Lustre website: http://wiki.lustre.org/ - -Source for the userspace tools and out-of-tree client and server code -is available at: http://git.hpdd.intel.com/fs/lustre-release.git - -Latest binary packages: -http://lustre.org/download/ |