[Lustre-discuss] up to date documentation

[Stearman, Marc]

LLNL also has two large (55PB and 7PB) file systems running Lustre 2.4 in production on our BlueGene/Q systems Sequoia and Vulcan.  We will also be transitioning all of our other production file systems (16+ PB) to Lustre 2.4 later this summer, so I would encourage you to look at 2.4 since you are building a new system.

Starting with a 1.8 file system and upgrading to a 2.x system will make it difficult to use some of the newer features of Lustre.  If you want to take advantage of any of the 2.x features, I would not start at 1.8.

-Marc

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D. Marc Stearman
Lustre Operations Lead
stearman2 at llnl.gov
925.423.9670




On Jun 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, "Jones, Peter A" <peter.a.jones at intel.com> wrote:

> You can find the maintained version of the manual at
> http://lustre.opensfs.org/documentation/
> 
> As per the recent OpenSFS survey, 1.8.x releases are still the most
> commonly deployed, but more people are running Lustre 2.x releases.
> 
> There are people in production on Lustre 2.2 and Lustre 2.3, but Lustre
> 2.1.x is the most commonly selected 2.x release (CEA, LLNL, and NASA are
> all in production on a 2.1.x release, for example) as it has been a
> maintenance release stream - see http://lustre.opensfs.org/download-lustre/
> 
> 
> On 6/12/13 3:28 AM, "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Is there any up-to-date documentation on lustre available, I am trying
>> to read myself in before I try to set up a lustre cluster but the
>> documentation on the website seems to be 2-3 years or older.
>> 
>> As far as I understood a while ago on IRC stable lustre is 1.8.x while
>> 2.x is not considered stable yet?
>> The cluster I will be setting up will be running CentOS6 for the
>> lustre machines (unless debian is after all an option).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Eli
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