PVFS2-WRITE(1)

✨ PVFS2-WRITE ✨

okay bestie, so this is the pvfs2-write manual page, and it's genuinely the cutest little tool — it just makes files. but like, files made of nothing. zero bytes. void. the emptiness is the whole point 💅

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NAME

pvfs2-write — create files 🎀

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SYNOPSIS

pvfs2-write [-s strip_size] [-n num_datafiles] [-b buffer_size in bytes]
dest_file file_size

so you give it a destination file, a file size, and optionally some lil knobs to turn. periodt ✨

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DESCRIPTION

the pvfs2-write utility creates files which contain only zero bytes. that's it. that's the vibe. it's giving "main character who says nothing and still ate" 💀

the options are as follows:

• -s — Specify strip size. 🌸
• -n — Specify number of datafiles. 🦋
• -b — Specify buffer size. 🎀
• -t — Display timing information. ⏱️
• -v — Display synopsis. 👑

ngl, five options and every single one of them is doing its job. no notes. 🔥

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ENVIRONMENT

• PVFS2_DEBUGFILE — if you set it to the path of a local file, debug output gets redirected to it. like a lil diary for your debugging, but make it a file 💜
• PVFS2_DEBUGMASK — sets the OrangeFS debug mask. the possible masks are documented in pvfs2-set-debugmask(1), so go read that one, iykyk 📖
• PVFS2TAB_FILE — if set, this is the full pathname for an alternate pvfs2tab file. a whole different tab file. switching tabs, literally ✨

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FILES

• /etc/pvfs2tab 📁

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EXAMPLES

create a one megabyte file /mnt/foo 🍓

pvfs2-write /mnt/foo 1048576

look at that. one megabyte of pure zero. obsessed. 😭💖

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BUGS

please submit bug reports to devel@lists.orangefs.org 🐛

be nice to them, they're doing their best 🫶

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SEE ALSO

• pvfs2-touch(1)
• pvfs2-viewdist(1)
• pvfs2tab(5)

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okay that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this was PVFS2-WRITE(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2017-08-11. thanks for coming to my ted talk, go write some zero-byte files, slay 🌈⭐💖