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Xyratex - Committed to working with the community and the future of the Lustre® file system

Xyratex - one of the thought leaders in the Lustre community – is committed to supporting Open Lustre on Linux and significantly contributing to the Lustre roadmap/releases.

News from LUG 2012

As a sponsor and industry influencer to the Lustre Community, Xyratex presented the following at the Lustre User Group in Austin, TX, April 2012

Presentation:

Improvements in Lustre Data Integrity

Network Request Scheduler (NRS) Scale Testing Results

MDSim – Load Simulator

LNET Support for IPv6 is Long Overdue

Lustre Resources

Xyratex Publishes Graphical Analysis of Lustre Commit Messages by Issue Type

Xyratex continues to enhance the quality of the Lustre Codebase

Click Here for Analysis of Changes from 01/01/2011 ticket logs

Click Here for Analysis of Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.2.0

Lustre Resources

Xyratex 1.8 to 2.x Migrator Tool

Lustre Migrator Tool - a utility produced by Xyratex for the Lustre community

Click here for the migration procedure
Click here for the migration utility

We recommend upgrading the MDS/MDT component from Lustre 1.8 to 2.x level software to improve file system performance, and to enable full 2.x functionality.

Xyratex Commitment to Lustre Development

Truly world-class file system architectural, development and support team with deep Lustre expertise
Continuing to invest in key Lustre & file system talent worldwide
Participant in community groups including OpenSFS
Xyratex fully complies with and supports the Lustre open source GPL license and will provide its Lustre contributions back into the community
Our belief is that we should have a single, open community repository that is not owned by any one private organization in order to safeguard the future of the community. This will maintain the integrity of a community Lustre release and avoid forking.