NAME¶

make_growfs - generate directory listings for the GROW filesystem

SYNOPSIS¶

make_growfs [options] <directory>

DESCRIPTION¶

make_growfs prepares a local filesystem to be exported as a GROW filesystem which can be accessed by parrot_run(1). Given a directory as an argument, it recursively visits all of the directories underneath and creates files named .__growfsdir that summarize the metadata of all files in that directory.

Once the directory files are generated, the files may be accessed through a web server as if there were on a full-fledged filesystem with complete metadata.

OPTIONS¶

 -v

Give verbose messages.

 -K

Create checksums for files. (default)

 -k

Disable checksums for files.

 -f

Follow all symbolic links.

 -F

Do not follow any symbolic links.

 -a

Only follow links that fall outside the root. (default)

 -h

Show help text.

EXIT STATUS¶

On success, returns zero. On failure, returns non-zero.

EXAMPLES¶

Suppose that your university web server exports the directory /home/fred/www as http://www.somewhere.edu/fred. To create a GROW filesystem, put whatever files and directories you like into /home/fred/www. Then, run the following to generate the GROW data:

% make_growfs /home/fred/www

Now that the GROW data is generated, you can use parrot_run(1) to treat the web address as a read-only filesystem:

% parrot_run bash
% cd /growfs/www.somewhere.edu/fred
% ls -la

COPYRIGHT¶

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

SEE ALSO¶

• The Cooperative Computing Tools ("http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/manuals")
• Parrot User Manual ("http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/manuals/parrot.html")
• parrot_run(1)