Hi Nathan,

Have we considered making the module loading an option to mount.lustre -
e.g. 

mount -t lustre -o moddir=/foo/bar .... 
 
To make the shell script almost go away.  I think this would be very nice.

- Peter -

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> Nathaniel Rutman
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:26 PM
> To: Lin Shen (lshen)
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Configure 1.6 beta
> 
> The script lustre/tests/llmount.sh will load the modules from 
> the local build dir and start a small Lustre fs on a single 
> node.  You can change many of options by overriding the 
> values set in lustre/tests/cfg/local.sh if e.g. you want to 
> use real disks.
> But eventually you need to put the modules in the appropriate 
> place for the kernel to find them if you ever want to do 
> anything else.
> lustre/utils/module_setup.sh does this for you, and modifies 
> /etc/modprobe.conf for a basic tcp LNET setup.
> 
> 
> Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to Lustre and trying to evaluate 1.6 beta. My first 
> goal is to 
> > setup a single node system. I'm following the MountConf 
> manual and a 
> > bit confused by the section "Module setup" (not sure where to find 
> > utils/module_setup, and which "make all" it's talking about). Do I 
> > really need to do anything here? Or can I just run mkfs.lustre and 
> > mount to get the system up and running?
> >
> > Thanks
> > lin
> >
> > 
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