pvfs2-mkdir - Man Page

pvfs2-mkdir [-m mode] [-i initial] [-x maximum] [-s split] [-pVvh] directory

The pvfs2-mkdir utility creates a directory in an OrangeFS volume at directory.

The options are as follows:

-m

Set permission mode as three or four digit octal number mode.

-i

Set initial number of dirdata handles.

-x

Set maximum number of dirdata handles.

-s

Set number of directory entries stored before split.

-p

Create parent directories as needed within OrangeFS.

-V

Display verbose messages.

-v

Print version number and exit.

-h

Display synopsis.

PVFS2_DEBUGFILE

If set to the path of a local file, redirect debug output to it.

PVFS2_DEBUGMASK

Set the OrangeFS debug mask.  Possible masks are documented in pvfs2-set-debugmask(1).

PVFS2TAB_FILE

If set, the full pathname for an alternate pvfs2tab file

/etc/pvfs2tab

Create a directory.

Create a directory whose entries are always distributed across 4 servers. In this case a split will never need to occur, so the split size is irrelevant.

Create a directory whose entries initially reside on 1 server, but may eventually grow so that entries are distributed across 4 servers.  When any single server reaches the maximum of 10,000 directory entries, another of the available servers becomes active and entries are split across active servers, up to a maximum of 4 servers.

Please submit bug reports to pvfs2-developers@beowulf-underground.org

mkdir(1), pvfs2-touch(1), pvfs2tab(5)