NIDS(5) Lustre File Formats NIDS(5)

# [NAME](#NAME)

/etc/nids - The static lookup table for Lustre NIDs

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

The static lookup table for Lustre NIDs

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The nids file maps host names to NIDs and vice-versa.

# [FORMAT](#FORMAT)

Comments beginning with a hash (#) are ignored. Each line represents one host and includes the following information separated by white space:

[*HOSTNAME*](#HOSTNAME)

The primary hostname of the node, e.g. *uname -n*.

[*PRIMARY\_NID*](#PRIMARY_NID)

The primary NID of the node.

[*OTHER\_NID* ...](#OTHER_NID)

Any additional NIDs.

# [FILES](#FILES)

/etc/nids

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

```
## Tycho
tycho-mds1 172.16.2.200@tcp 172.16.10.200@tcp
tycho1     172.16.2.1@tcp   172.16.10.1@tcp
tycho2     172.16.2.2@tcp   172.16.10.2@tcp
tycho3     172.16.2.3@tcp   172.16.10.3@tcp
tycho4     172.16.2.4@tcp   172.16.10.4@tcp
tycho5     172.16.2.5@tcp   172.16.10.5@tcp
tycho6     172.16.2.6@tcp   172.16.10.6@tcp
tycho7     172.16.2.7@tcp   172.16.10.7@tcp
tycho8     172.16.2.8@tcp   172.16.10.8@tcp
```

# [AVAILABILITY](#AVAILABILITY)

**/etc/nids** is part of the [**lustre**(7)](/man/enterprise-packages/lustre/lustre.7) filesystem package since release 2.3.0

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

2024-08-28 Lustre

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Document: nids(5) from lustre 2.17.59-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/lustre/lustre-release