[Lustre-discuss] Understanding MDS and documentation of MDS/MDT

Tue Jan 26 14:14:14 PST 2010

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:47:32AM -0500, Vilobh Meshram wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I am new to Luster File System and wanted to understand the internals.I
>    wanted to know more about MDS/MDT/OSS/OST component.
>    Please point me to some link.

The lustre manual is available online:
http://manual.lustre.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual18_HTML/IntroductionToLustre.html#50532458_pgfId-1287192

The lustre internals training is also available on the wiki:
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Lustre_Internals

HTH

Johann