Presentation

Shine is a command line tool designed to setup and manage the Lustre file system on a cluster. It aims at centralize and simplify Lustre filesystem management task with:

• one human-readable configuration file to describe your filesystem
• start, stop, format (and more) your filesystem from a unique machine, thanks to a simple command line interface.

Download

• Latest release

Shine v0.911 - Feb 2012

• Fsck progression is display in real time (#107)
• Clients can have different mount options (#116)
• Clients deconnection and eviction are detected (#114)

• Internal code improvements (#54, #118, #113)
• Various bugfixes (11 tickets)

Shine v0.910 - Sep 2011

• Added update command (#88). Some examples of its possibilities.
• Added tunefs command (#91)
• Various bugfixes:
  • Cache file error (#75)
  • Hostname resolution error (#89)
  • More scalable (> 3000 nodes clusters) (#87, #92)
  • And others...

Shine v0.909 - Oct 2010

• Support multiple NID per server (#74)
• External journal improvement (#80)
• Clean configuration files (#66)
• Various bugfixes:
  • Install also on ha nodes (#72)
  • Fix index management in model file (#24, #70)

Shine v0.908 - Jul 2010

• All shine commands have a progress status. (#2)
• Internal code improvements.
• Bugfixes.

Shine v0.907 - May 2010

• First version of failover support (#18)
• Allow filesystem with no MDT and OST (#39)
• Various bugfixes:
  • Error handling with unreachable nodes (#58)
  • Hostname resolution (#60, #61)

Shine v0.906 - April 2010

• Added fsck command (#34)
• Now supports Lustre routers (#15)
• Support additional command line options (-o).
• Various bugfixes:
  • Fix regression for shine return code (#59).
  • Fix timeout issues when installing (#47).
  • shine remove now do cleaning on client nodes also (#51).

Documentation

• Quick start installation guide
• How-to for classical use cases
  • Add new clients
  • Add new OSTs
• The shine command

Mailing-lists

• shine-devel: General discussions for developpers and users needing help.
• shine-commits: An e-mail is sent for each commit in Shine svn.

Contributing

• Bug reports: to report bugs, login with your SourceForge account and use New Ticket link.