Open Source Lustre™ File System

Published Wed, 2005-11-16 20:54 Software

To download Lustre 1.4.5, please visit http://www.clusterfs.com/download.html

Cluster File Systems™ this week released the latest update to the open source Lustre™ file system. Lustre version 1.4.5, available to CFS customers since August, is now available to the general public at no cost.

CFS announces that future versions will be released to customers and the general public simultaneously. Community users will no longer need to wait for access to the newest open source Lustre software.

Lustre 1.4.5 delivers many improvements over the previous publicly available version, including:

production-quality clients and servers on Linux 2.6
support for PowerPC architectures, and mixed-endian clusters
support for Mellanox and Voltaire Infiniband
support for multiple network interfaces in a single node
cluster-wide consistent mmap I/O
support for clusters of more than 5,000 nodes and 400 I/O servers
disk file system improvements for faster, more consistent I/O
SNMP integration

The next version of Lustre, to be released in late December, will add:

support for Silverstorm Infiniband and Myrinet (GM)
user and group disk quotas
extended attributes
POSIX access control lists

To download Lustre 1.4.5, please visit http://www.clusterfs.com/download.html

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