chirp_fuse(1)

NAME

chirp_fuse - create a FUSE mount point with virtual access to remote chirp servers

SYNOPSIS

chirp_fuse [options] <mount path>

DESCRIPTION

You can attach to a Chirp filesystems by using the FUSE package to attach Chirp as a kernel filesystem module. Unlike parrot(1), this requires superuser privileges to install the FUSE package, but will likely work more reliably on a larger number of programs and environments. Using FUSE allows for transparent access to a Chirp server via the local filesystem. This allows user applications to use a Chirp store unmodified.

Once you have installed and permissions to use FUSE, simply run chirp_fuse with the name of a directory on which the filesystem should be mounted.

For complete details with examples, see the Chirp User's Manual.

OPTIONS

`-a <flag>`
	Require this authentication mode.
`-b <bytes>`
	Block size for network I/O. (default is 65536s)
`-d <flag>`
	Enable debugging for this subsystem.
`-D`	Disable small file optimizations such as recursive delete.
`-f`	Run in foreground for debugging.
`-h`	Give help information.
`-m <option>`
	Pass mount option to FUSE. Can be specified multiple times.
`-o <file>`
	Send debugging output to this file.
`-t <timeout>`
	Timeout for network operations. (default is 60s)
`-v`	Show program version.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

CHIRP_CLIENT_TICKETS Comma delimited list of tickets to authenticate with (same as -i).

EXIT STATUS

On success, returns zero. On failure, returns non-zero.

EXAMPLES

To create and use a FUSE mount point for access to remote chirp servers:

% chirp_fuse /tmp/chirp-fuse &
% cd /tmp/chirp-fuse
% ls
% cd host:port
% cat foo/bar
% exit

COPYRIGHT

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Douglas Thain and Copyright (C) 2005-2011 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.