145 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
145 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
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.TH mkfs.xtreemfs 1 "July 2011" "The XtreemFS Distributed File System" "XtreemFS client"
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.SH NAME
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mkfs.xtreemfs - create a new XtreemFS volume
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBmkfs.xtreemfs [\fIoptions\fB] [pbrpc[g|s]://]\fImrc-host\fR[:\fIport\fR]/\fIvolume
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I mkfs.xtreemfs
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Creates a new volume named \fIvolume\fR at the MRC \fImrc-host\fR:\fIport\fR.
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.SH EXAMPLE USAGE
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.TP
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Create the volume "MyVolume" on the MRC server "remote.mrc.machine":
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.TP
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.B "mkfs.xtreemfs remote.mrc.machine/MyVolume"
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.TP
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Create a volume with a default striping width of 2 meaning files will be always striped across 2 OSDs.
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.TP
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.B "mkfs.xtreemfs \-p RAID0 \-w 2 remote.mrc.machine/MyVolume"
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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Admin Password:
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.TP
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.BI "--admin_password " password
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MRC's admin_password (not required if not set at the MRC).
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.TP
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Volume Options:
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.BI "-m, \--mode " mode
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Mode of the volume's root directory (777 by default).
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.TP
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.BI "-u, \--owner-username " username
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Owner of the new volume (by default it is the username of the effective user id).
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.TP
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.BI "-g, \--owner-groupname " groupname
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Owning group of the new volume (by default its the groupname of the effective
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group id).
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.TP
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.BI "-a, \--access-control-policy " NULL|POSIX|VOLUME
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Access Control Policy of the volume. By default
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.IR POSIX .
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.TP
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Striping Policy Options:
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.TP
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.BI "-p, \--striping-policy " RAID0
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Default striping policy for new files. Currently only the policy
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.I RAID0
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is available. Please do not get confused by the name
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.IR RAID0 .
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If the default
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.I \--striping-policy-width
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of 1 is used, all objects of a file are stored on the same OSD and there is no higher failure probability compared to storing files on other file systems.
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.TP
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.BI "-s, \--striping-policy-stripe-size " stripe-size
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Stripe size in kB.
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.TP
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.BI "-w, \--striping-policy-width " stripe-width
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Number of OSDs (stripes) per replica.
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.TP
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Volume Attributes:
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.TP
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.BI "--volume-attribute " name=value
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Define volume specific attributes of the form
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.IR name=value ,
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e.g. "chown_non_root=true".
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.TP
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.B "--chown-non-root"
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Shortcut for \--volume-attribute chown_non_root=true. If this attribute is not set, regular users (everybody except root) are not allowed to change the ownership of their
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.B own
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files.
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.TP
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General Options:
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.BI "-d, \--log-level " EMERG|ALERT|CRIT|ERR|WARNING|NOTICE|INFO|DEBUG
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The log level of the XtreemFS client.
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.B "-h, \--help"
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Print help and exit.
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.BI "-l, \--log-file-path " log_file_path
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Path to log file.
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.BI "-V, \--version"
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Shows the version number.
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.TP
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SSL Options:
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.BI "--pem-certificate-file-path " certfile
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Path to PEM certificate file (for SSL installations only).
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.BI "--pem-private-key-file-path " file
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Path to PEM private key file (for SSL installations only).
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.BI "--pem-private-key-passphrase " pass
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Passphrase for PEM private key file (for SSL installations only)
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.TP
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.BI "--pkcs12-file-path " file
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Path to PKCS#12 file (for SSL installations only).
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.BI "--pkcs12-passphrase " pass
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Passphrase for PKCS#12 file (for SSL installations only).
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.TP
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Grid Support options:
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.TP
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.B "--grid-ssl "
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Explicitily use the XtreemFS Grid-SSL mode. Same as specifying pbrpcg:// in the volume URL.
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.TP
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.B "--globus-gridmap"
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Authorize using globus gridmap file.
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.B "--unicore-gridmap"
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Authorize using unicore gridmap file.
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.BI "--gridmap-location " path
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Location of the gridmap file. If this option is not set, the default path will be used, depending on the chosen gridmap file:
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.RS
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Unicore default: /etc/grid-security/d-grid_uudb
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Globus default: /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile
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.RE
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.TP
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.BI "--gridmap-reload-interval-m " interval
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Interval (in minutes) after which the gridmap file will be checked for changes and reloaded if necessary. 60 minutes by default.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR lsfs.xtreemfs (1),
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.BR mount.xtreemfs (1),
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.BR rmfs.xtreemfs (1),
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.BR umount.xtreemfs (1),
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.BR xtfsutil (1)
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.BR
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The mkfs.xtreemfs command is part of the XtreemFS-client package and is available from \fIhttp://www.xtreemfs.org\fP.
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