PVFS2(1)

💖 PVFS2(1) — the PVFS2 manual, bestie edition 💖

aka PVFS2 Manuals — yes we're doing the whole overview, pull up a chair 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pvfs2 — A parallel virtual file system for Linux 🐧💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Okay so real talk: this man page is the big picture tour of PVFS2, not the deep dive. For the actual how-to on individual tools, go read these besties:

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

PVFS2 is a parallel virtual file system for clusters. Periodt. What that means is PVFS takes your totally ordinary, off-the-shelf commodity storage and network tech and makes it do the most — giving you concurrent access to data that is distributed across a (potentially large) collection of servers. It's giving teamwork. It's giving main character storage energy. 👑

This man page is documenting the general features of the PVFS2 system as a whole. If you want the specific tea on any one program, hit up the man pages for the individual programs. iykyk 🌈

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/pvfs2tab — this file maps absolute pathnames to pvfs2 servers and volumes. But wait — if the PVFS2TAB_FILE environment variable is set, programs will use the file at that location instead. So like, the env var wins, no cap. For more info, see pvfs2tab(5). 📌

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💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

• PVFS2TAB_FILE — if set, this is the full pathname for an alternate pvfs2tab file. Your little override key 🔑✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

The PVFS2 development team (devel@lists.orangefs.org) — that's who you're telling, bestie 😭🙈

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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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Okay that's the whole page, you ate it up 🍓 This was PVFS2, from the PVFS2 manual set, dated SEPTEMBER 2003 — iconic behavior honestly, slay 👑💖🦋

mwah, go read the other man pages, ily 🫶✨