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Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

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CHAPTER 4<br />

<strong>Lustre</strong> Installation<br />

This chapter describes how to install <strong>Lustre</strong> and includes the following sections:<br />

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Installing <strong>Lustre</strong><br />

Quick Configuration of <strong>Lustre</strong><br />

Building from Source<br />

Building a <strong>Lustre</strong> Source Tarball<br />

Note – Currently, all <strong>Lustre</strong> installations run the ext3 filesystem internally on service<br />

nodes. <strong>Lustre</strong> servers use the ext3 filesystem to store user-data objects and system<br />

data. The ext3 filesystem creates a journal for efficient recovery after a system crash<br />

or power outages.<br />

By default, <strong>Lustre</strong> reserves 400MB on the OST for journal use 1 . This reserved space is<br />

unavailable for general storage. For this reason, you will see 400MB of space used on<br />

the OST before any file object data is saved to it.<br />

1. Additionally, a few bytes outside the journal are used to create accounting data for <strong>Lustre</strong>.<br />

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