make_growfs(1) Cooperative Computing Tools make_growfs(1)

make_growfs - generate directory listings for the GROW filesystem

make_growfs [options] <directory>

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.

 -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.

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

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

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