PVFS2-CP(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pvfs2-cp — bestie's favourite little tool for copying files to and from OrangeFS volumes ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pvfs2-cp [-s strip_size] [-n num_datafiles] [-b buffer_size_in_bytes]
[-tv] src_file dst_file

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so here's the vibe: pvfs2-cp takes your src_file and copies it over to dst_file, and those two files can live either on OrangeFS volumes or just be plain local files. No biggie, it handles both 💅

And when it is doing OrangeFS stuff? It goes through the OrangeFS library, not through the kernel interface. That's the whole tea ☕

The options are as follows:

• -s — tell it what strip size to use when it's creating dst_file. Heads up bestie: this only applies to OrangeFS volumes.
• -n — tell it how many datafiles to use when it's creating dst_file. Again, only applies to OrangeFS volumes.
• -b — use an intermediate buffer of buffer_size bytes while copying the file. Buffer era 🫶
• -t — spill some timing information, for the curious girlies ⏱️
• -v — print the version number and dip. That's it, that's the option 👑

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• PVFS2_DEBUGFILE — if you set this to the path of a local file, all that debug output gets redirected there instead of yelling at you. quiet luxury 💜
• PVFS2_DEBUGMASK — sets the OrangeFS debug mask. All the possible masks are documented over in pvfs2-set-debugmask(1), so go peek there 👀
• PVFS2TAB_FILE — if set, this is the full pathname for an alternate pvfs2tab file. Main character energy, choosing your own tab file ✨

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/pvfs2tab

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Say you wanna copy /etc/motd over to /mnt/bar. And if /mnt happens to be an OrangeFS volume? Then congrats, that file is going straight into OrangeFS 🎉

pvfs2-cp /etc/motd /mnt/bar

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💀 CAVEATS 💀

When dst_file is a directory, this utility does not work. None. Nada. In this one specific way it is different from the cp(1) utility, so don't come for it 🙈

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😭 BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Please submit bug reports to devel@lists.orangefs.org — they wanna hear from you fr fr 🍓

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

cp(1), pvfs2-ln(1), pvfs2-viewdist(1), pvfs2tab(5)

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And that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's from the General Commands Manual, the PVFS2-CP(1) era, dated 2017-08-11. Go copy something iconic. Periodt. ✨🦋💅