SYNOPSIS

mount -t lustre [-o options] directory

DESCRIPTION

mount.lustre is used to start a Lustre client or target service. This program should not be called directly; rather it is a helper program invoked through mount(8) as above. Lustre clients and targets are stopped by using the umount(8) command.

There are two forms for the device option, depending on whether a client or a target service is started:

<mgsspec>:/<fsname>

mounts the Lustre filesystem named fsname on the client by contacting the Management Service at mgsspec on the pathname given by directory. The format for mgsspec is defined below. A mounted client filesystem appears in fstab(5) and is usable like any local filesystem and provides a full POSIX-compilant interface.

disk_device

starts the target service defined by the mkfs.lustre command on the physical disk disk_device. A mounted target service filesystem is only useful for df(1) operations and appears in fstab(5) to show the device is in use.

OPTIONS

<mgsspec>:=<mgsnode>[:<mgsnode>]

The mgs specification may be a colon-separated list of nodes:

<mgsnode>:=<mgsnid>[,<mgsnid>]

each node may be specified by a comma-separated list of NIDs.

In addition to the standard options listed in mount(8), Lustre understands the following client-specific options:

flock

Enable full flock support, coherent across all client nodes.

localflock

Enable local flock support, using only client-local flock (faster, for applications that require flock but do not run on multiple nodes).

noflock

Disable flock support entirely. Applications calling flock will get an error.

user_xattr

Enable get/set of extended attributes by regular users. See the attr(5) manual page.

nouser_xattr

Disable use of extended attributes by regular users. Root and system processes can still use extended attributes.

acl

Enable POSIX Access Control List support. See the acl(5) manual page.

noacl

Disable Access Control List support.

In addition to the standard mount options and backing disk type (e.g. ext3) options listed in mount(8), Lustre understands the following server-specific options:

nosvc

Only start the MGC (and MGS, if co-located) for a target service, and not the actual service.

nomgs

Start a MDT with a co-located MGS without starting the MGS.

exclude=ostlist

Start a client or MDT with a (colon-separated) list of known inactive OSTs.

abort_recov

Abort client recovery and start the target service immediately.

md_stripe_cache_size

Sets the stripe cache size for server side disk with a striped raid configuration.

recovery_time_soft=timeout

Allow 'timeout' seconds for clients to reconnect for recovery after a server crash. This timeout will be incrementally extended if it is about to expire and the server is still handling new connections from recoverable clients. The default soft recovery timeout is set to 300 seconds (5 minutes).

recovery_time_hard=timeout

The server will be allowed to incrementally extend its timeout up to a hard maximum of 'timeout' seconds. The default hard recovery timeout is set to 900 seconds (15 minutes).

EXAMPLES

mount -t lustre cfs21@tcp0:/testfs /mnt/myfilesystem

Start a client for the Lustre filesystem 'testfs' at the mount point /mnt/myfilesystem. The Management Service is running on a node reachable from this client via the nid cfs21@tcp0.

mount -t lustre /dev/sda1 /mnt/test/mdt

Start the Lustre metadata target service from /dev/sda1 on mountpoint /mnt/test/mdt.

mount -t lustre -L testfs-MDT0000 -o abort_recov /mnt/test/mdt

Start the testfs-MDT0000 service (by using the disk label), but abort the recovery process.

NOTES

If the Service Tags tool (from the sun-servicetag package) can be found in /opt/sun/servicetag/bin/stclient an inventory service tag will be created reflecting the Lustre service being provided. If this tool cannot be found mount.lustre will silently ignore it and no service tag is created. The stclient(1) tool only creates the local service tag. No information is sent to the asset management system until you run the Registration Client to collect the tags and then upload them to the inventory system using your inventory system account. See https://inventory.sun.com/ for more details on a web-based, free, IT asset management system.

AVAILABILITY

mount.lustre is part of the Lustre(7) filesystem package and is available from Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://downloads.lustre.org