LIZARDFS-APPENDCHUN(1)

✨ LIZARDFS-APPENDCHUN ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the lizardfs-appendchunks manual page — yes that's the real name up there, LIZARDFS-APPENDCHUN(1), manual section 1, command-line tool energy only 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lizardfs-appendchunks — lazy append chunks 🦋

like. it appends chunks. lazily. the name ate and left no crumbs.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lizardfs appendchunks SNAPSHOT_FILE OBJECT...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one snapshot file, and then a whole squad of objects, no cap 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so appendchunks — which is lowkey the same thing as mfssnapshot from MooseFS 1.5, for the historians in the chat — appends a lazy copy of the file(s) you specify to the snapshot file you specify. 🌈

and before you ask, bestie, "lazy" here does not mean it's procrastinating in bed. it means the creation of new chunks is delayed until the moment one of the copies gets modified. main character energy: why do work now when you could do it later, right? 😌✨

and here's the tea: if you give it multiple files, they get merged into one single target file, in a way where each file begins at a chunk (64MB) boundary. the padding space in between? left empty. just vibes and emptiness. 💀

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2008-2009 Gemius SA, 2013-2016 Skytechnology sp. z o.o.

LizardFS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3. 🎀

LizardFS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. like fr fr, read it, it's important 🫶

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with LizardFS. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. 🙈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• lizardfs(1) — the mothership, go read her

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this gorgeous little manual dropped on 07/24/2025 under the LIZARDFS-APPENDCHUN(1) banner, and honestly? iconic. now go append some chunks, you absolute legend 👑💖✨