Completing Basic Administrative Tasks

(Updated: Feb 2010)

Procedures for these basic Lustre administration tasks can be found in the Lustre Operations Manual by clicking on the links below:
 * Section 4.3.1: Specifying the File System Name
 * Section 4.3.2: Starting up Lustre
 * Section 4.3.3: Mounting a Server
 * Section 4.3.4: Unmounting a Server
 * Section 4.3.5: Working with Inactive OSTs
 * Section 4.3.6: Finding Nodes in the Lustre File System
 * 4.3.7: Mounting a Server Without Lustre Service
 * Section 4.3.8: Specifying Failout/Failover Mode for OSTs
 * Section 4.3.9: Running Multiple Lustre File Systems
 * Section 4.3.10: Setting and Retrieving Lustre Parameters
 * Section 4.3.11: Regenerating the Lustre Configuration Logs
 * Section 4.3.12: Changing a Server NID
 * Section 4.3.13: Removing and Restoring OSTs
 * Section 4.3.14: Aborting Recovery
 * Section 4.3.15: Determining Which Machine is Serving an OST

For more information about the system configuration utilities mkfs.lustre, tunefs.lustre, lctl, and mount.lustre used in many of these procedures, see Lustre System Configuration Utilities.