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From: Nathan Rutman <Nathan.Rutman@Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:57:03 -0800
Subject: [Lustre-devel] moving /proc to $MNT/.lustre
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Alex Zhuravlev wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>> What's the plan to prevent various backups software (and also tar & 
>>> friends)
>>> from backing up and restoring (esp. restoring of course) values in 
>>> these
>>> files?
>>
>> The typical way is that .lustre would not appear in readdir/getdirents
>> but could be accessed if explicitly named.
>
> wouldn't it make sense to get rid of .lustre and use lctl then?
> I guess we'll have to do this anyway if we want to use all our
> testing infrastructure with userspace servers.
No - there will be plenty of other things in .lustre as well:
snapshots
log files
status indications