LFS-PATH2FID(1)

📦 version 2.17.58, in ubuntu stonking

✨ lfs-path2fid(1) ✨

okay bestie so this is a page from the Lustre User Utilities manual 💅 like the actual lfs-path2fid(1) one, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

lfs-path2fid — print the file identifier for a given pathname

like… you give it a path, it gives you a FID. it's giving matchmaker but for files 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lfs path2fid DIRECTORY|FILE...

notice the ... bestie — you can throw multiple paths at it and it'll handle each one, no cap 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

lfs path2fid prints the File Identifier for the FILE or DIRECTORY you specified. that's the whole job. she's focused, she's efficient, she ate 🍓

and like, the FID is unique for each file in the filesystem</>, and — this is the iconic part — it is never reused for other files if the file is deleted. so once a FID is taken, that slot is retired forever. no recycling era, only main character energy 👑

you can also grab the FID for regular files via lfs getstripe -F if that's more your vibe ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --parents — Print out the parent FID and name(s) of the given entries. If an entry has multiple links, these are displayed on a single line, tab-separated. (yes, multiple links, one line, tabs doing the separating — organized queen behavior fr fr 💅)

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

look at her go ✨

$ lfs path2fid /mnt/lustre/etc/hosts
[0x200000403:0x11f:0x0]

and with the --parents glow-up:

$ lfs path2fid --parents /mnt/lustre/etc/hosts
[0x200000403:0x101:0x0]/hosts

see how the parent FID showed up in front and the name tacked on after the slash?? obsessed 😭🫶

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

lfs path2fid is part of the lustre(7) filesystem package since release 1.7.0. she's been around, she's a legacy icon 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay that's the whole page, you're welcome 🧚 this dropped from the Lustre crew on 2025-01-24 — go forth and path2fid something, bestie, and remember: the FID never gets reused, and neither should you ever accept mid documentation 💖✨

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