Lustre
lustre.org
Spec sheet
- Product
- Lustre is an open-source, parallel file system for high-performance computing environments.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Intended users
- The official site describes Lustre as supporting leadership-class HPC simulation environments, and its documentation covers deployments from smaller HPC systems to supercomputers.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Audience
- The project describes Lustre as serving environments from small-scale HPC systems to the largest supercomputers.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Security
- The FAQ says Lustre supports POSIX access control lists and Kerberos authentication, and enforces security on the Metadata Server using a server-local PAM-managed group database.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Architecture
- Lustre is a distributed, POSIX-compliant file system with a client-server architecture.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Availability
- Redundant servers can support failover, and Lustre describes high-availability configurations using shared storage and inter-node failover.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Community
- The official site links to community mailing lists and development activities including code work, testing, bug filing, and benchmarking.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Data reliability
- Lustre does not replicate data objects across storage servers; data reliability is handled by the storage subsystem.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Documentation
- The Operations Manual is available in HTML, PDF, and ePub formats and accepts community patches, reviews, and suggestions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Download
- The official download page offers RPM packages for a number of platforms and links to the public source repository.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Downloads
- The official download page offers RPM packages for multiple platforms and links to the public source repository.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Hardware and networks
- Lustre can run on commodity hardware with block storage such as disks, RAID, or logical volume management, and supports Ethernet and InfiniBand.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Help and support
- The official getting-started page directs users to the Operations Manual, wiki, and community mailing lists, and points to OpenSFS for paid commercial support options.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- High availability
- Lustre supports inter-node failover, but data objects are not replicated between storage servers by Lustre itself.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Linux support
- Lustre runs on Linux distributions including RHEL, CentOS, and SLES; server setup with ldiskfs requires a patched kernel, while the ZFS server option and client code do not require kernel patches.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Networking
- LNet supports Ethernet, InfiniBand, Intel Omni-Path, and other compute fabrics, with routing and multi-rail traffic balancing.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Online expansion limit
- Lustre supports adding OST and MDT targets online, but shrinking OST file systems online is not supported.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Performance
- Lustre is designed for high throughput and can use high-speed fabrics including Ethernet and InfiniBand.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- POSIX interface
- Lustre clients present applications with a coherent POSIX file system interface.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Scale
- A Lustre file system can present hundreds of petabytes of storage to thousands of compute clients.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Server requirement
- Lustre servers require Lustre-specific e2fsprogs RPM packages.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- Storage back ends
- Lustre supports ldiskfs and OpenZFS as back-end file systems.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Supported systems
- The download wiki says supported operating system subdirectories typically include RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu, with separate client and server RPMs.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
- Testing and administration
- The source includes tests and a framework for testing components and benchmarking the file system and network; the official getting-started page points administrators to logs and the Operations Manual.Read 4 Oct 2026 · lustre.org
- What it is
- Lustre is an open-source, distributed parallel file system designed for scalability, high performance, and high availability.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wiki.lustre.org
Where Specifiction places it
- Distributed File System Software#20 of 327.4
