Scott, Might I suggest talking with Richard Henwood at Intel? I recall from a past LUG that he's coordinating all of the LU-DOC jira tickets and handling the build process for the manual. I know Richard is interested in contributors and can be very helpful -- at least I've found him to be on many topics.
-- -Jason ---------------------------------- Jason J. Hill HPC System Administrator NCCS, OLCF; Oak Ridge National Laboratory 865-576-5867 [email protected] ---------------------------------- On 8/14/14, 9:40 AM, "Scott Nolin" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Andrew, > >Much of this information is notes and not in a finished format, so it's >a problem of how much time we have. > >The other issue is contributing to the manual is somewhat cumbersome as >you have to submit patches - >https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Making+changes+to+the+Lustre+Manua >l+source > >The bar there is a bit higher - we have to be pretty confident the >information that's added is correct, know if it's just for some versions >of lustre, and so on. As opposed to simply "here are our notes that work >for us". > >I will try to review what we have and if anything looks really incorrect >or missing in the lustre manual we will attempt to issue a patch. > >I think in general the lustre manual is correct, but not always >sufficient. I think the process does make sure incorrect stuff doesn't >go in at least, but makes it hard to add information. > >Scott > >On 8/14/2014 6:13 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> Great job! Would you consider merging with the standard Lustre docs? >> >> https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Documentation >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrew >> >> >> On 12 August 2014 18:58, Scott Nolin <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> At UW SSEC my group has been using Lustre for a few years, and >> recently Lustre with ZFS as the back end file system. We have found >> the Lustre community very open and helpful in sharing information. >> Specifically information from various LUG and LAD meetings and the >> mailing lists has been very helpful. >> >> With this in mind we would like to share some of our internal >> documentation and notes that may be useful to others. These are >> working notes, so not a complete guide. >> >> I want to be clear that the official Lustre documentation should be >> considered the correct reference material in general. But this >> information may be helpful for some - >> >> http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~__scottn/ >><http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~scottn/> >> >> Topics that I think of particular interest may be lustre zfs install >> notes and JBOD monitoring. >> >> Scott Nolin >> UW SSEC >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >><mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
