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Tutorial - Lustre File System

A Distributed Computing Tutorial by Steven Choy

Introduction

Lustre is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system. It is designed, developed and maintained by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Tutorial Activities

Study the following white paper about Lustre File System. Then discussion the following questions.

Reading

Questions

  • There are three different kinds of systems in Lustre clusters. Explain each of them.
  • What are OST and MDT in Lustre clusters?
  • Briefly describe how to configure Lustre file systems.
  • Briefly describe how Lustre file systems support failures transparency.
  • Compare Lustre File Systems with NFS in terms of scaling capabilities and networks supports.
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