PVFS2-SERVER(1)

✨ NAME ✨

pvfs2-server — the PVFS2 file serving, request processing, dancing daemon 💃🦋

(yeah bestie, the original manpage really said dancing. we don't make the rules, we just serve them.)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pvfs2-server [-d] [-f] [-h] <global_config_file> <local_config_file>

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: pvfs2-server runs on every single node that's part of a PVFS2 volume. every one. it's giving "popular girl who's literally everywhere at once" energy. 👑

and here's the slay — one single pvfs2-server can be a metadata server, or a datafile server, or both. versatile icon behavior only. no cap. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — prints a helpful usage message. she's helpful, she's polite, she's telling you how to use her. 🫶
• -d — keeps the server in the foreground. super useful for debugging, because you can actually watch what's happening instead of it vanishing into the background like your ex. 🙈
• -f — the server will create the file system storage space and then exit. one and done, periodt. sets up the storage, dips out. 💨
• global_config_file — this one contains the defaults that get applied to all servers. the group chat settings, if you will. 🌈
• local_config_file — this one contains the settings applied to the local instance of the server. her own personal vibe check. ⭐

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💀 BUGS 💀

the PVFS2 development team lives at devel@lists.orangefs.org — so if you find a bug, that's where you take it. go tell them, they want to know. 🐛✉️

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pvfs2-server(1)
• pvfs2-ls(1)
• pvfs2-statfs(1)
• pvfs2-ping(1)
• pvfs2-cp(1)
• pvfs2-genconfig(1)

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PVFS2 · SEPTEMBER 2003

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this one came from the PVFS2 manual set, dated SEPTEMBER 2003, under the PVFS2 name. iconic. legendary. older than most of us and still serving. 👑🎀✨