[Lustre-discuss] Lustre client mount

[Kevin Van Maren]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 19:18 +0400, Sergey Arlashin wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>> I have a Lustre storage named "storage" and usually I mount it with
>> command: 
>> mount -t lustre 192.168.15.241:/storage /mnt/lustrefs
>> I wonder if it is possible to mount only a particular folder from the
>> Lustre storage?
>>     
>
> No.  This is not possible with Lustre.
>
> b.
>   

But once you have the filesystem mounted, you can use a bind mount to 
mount the folder at another location, as in:
# mount --bind /mnt/lustrefs/folder1 /mnt/folder1

Kevin