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James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Mon Jan 16 13:05:19 PST 2017


> lnetctl was designed to control LNet only. We have not moved the rest of the lctl functionality. lctl does
> a lot of other lustre specific functions.
> The idea was to have lnetctl be only LNet specific, and lctl lustre specific. In essence we are attempting
> to decouple LNet from lustre. There has been some talk about upstreaming LNet before lustre with all the
> work that James Simmons from ORNL is doing.

Already done. LNet is ahead a bit for the upstream client from master but 
just recently I have been backporting that work to the OpenSFS branch.
Its almost synced up now. As for LNet leaving staging Greg wanted both
LNet and lustre to leaving staging at the same time.

> thanks
> amir
> 
> On 10 January 2017 at 14:06, Christopher J. Morrone <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>       Sounds good to me.  Ideally, lnetctl should be able to do everything
>       that lctl could do (plus all of the new features).  Has it reached
>       parity?  If not, what else still remains to be done?
> 
>       Chris
> 
>       On 01/10/2017 12:15 PM, Amir Shehata wrote:
>       > lctl usage is kept for backwards compatibility. Eventually, we should be
>       > moving to using lnetctl exclusively. Which lustre-release we should do
>       > that in, is the question. 2.10?
>       >
>       > thanks
>       > amir
>       >
>       > On 4 January 2017 at 16:16, Di Natale, Giuseppe <dinatale2 at llnl.gov
>       > <mailto:dinatale2 at llnl.gov>> wrote:
>       >
>       >     Greetings,
>       >
>       >     I am attempting to port the SysV lnet script as part of a transition
>       >     to systemd. I ran into the following in lustre/scripts/lnet:
>       >
>       >             if [ -x $LUSTRE_LNET_CONFIG_UTILITY -a -f
>       >     "$LUSTRE_LNET_CONFIG_FILE" ]; then
>       >                     $LUSTRE_LNET_CONFIG_UTILITY lnet configure || exit 1
>       >             else
>       >                     lctl network up || exit 1
>       >             fi
>       >
>       >     Can the check for LUSTRE_LNET_CONFIG_UTILITY  (/usr/sbin/lnetctl by
>       >     default) be removed so that way lnetctl is used exclusively?
>       >
>       >     Thanks,
>       >     Giuseppe Di Natale
>       >
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