make_growfs1

Usage

Overview

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 FC.__growfsdirFT 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 FC/home/fred/wwwFT as FChttp://www.somewhere.edu/fredFT. To create a GROW filesystem, put whatever files and directories you like into FC/home/fred/wwwFT. 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