Lustre is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system. it is maintained by cluster filesystems, inc. and available from http://www.lustre.org

this package provides a shared library that is used by userspace applications to work with lustre filesystems. it gives a user application linked with the library access to lustre file systems without the need to mount lustre (vfs) on the client. the key goals for the library are to provide a portable mechanism to access lustre from different posix compliant operating systems, to provide access from microkernel based systems and from the windows operating system.

currently, liblustre is still under development and only works on linux (i386 & amd64, not tested on ia64).

please see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/liblustre_how-to_guide for details.