NAME

       gfarmbb - start and stop Gfarm/BB (Gfarm for node-local burst buffer)

SYNOPSIS

       gfarmbb [options] mode

DESCRIPTION

       Gfarm/BB is an on-demand user-level file system for node-local storages on compute nodes.
       gfarmbb starts a Gfarm/BB and stops it. The mode should be start, stop or status. When the
       mode is start, it displays the environment variable that should be eval'ed to use Gfarm
       commands as follows;

       % eval `gfarmbb start`

       Basically, specify the same option for start, stop and status.

OPTIONS

       -e
           excludes Gfmd node from file system nodes. Gfmd is executed on the node where gfarmbb
           is executed. With this option, gfsd is not executed on that node. This option expects
           there are N + 1 node allocations, and gfarmbb is executed on the last host in the
           hostfile. This option is available only for gfarmbb start.

       -h hostfile
           specifies a hostfile that contains a list of hostnames of compute nodes.

       -scr scratch_dir
           specifies a scratch directory on each compute node for Gfarm/BB. If it does not exist,
           it is created. This directory will be removed by gfarmbb stop. Default is
           /tmp/gfarmbb-scratch.

       -l
           enables access to Gfarm/BB from login nodes. With this option, the Gfarm/BB
           configuration file $HOME/.gfarm2rc-$ID is created in the home directory. ID consists
           of the hostname of the master compute node and the process ID. To access to Gfarm/BB,
           specify it by GFARM_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.

       -L log_dir
           specifies a log directory. If it does not exist, it is created. Log file names of gfmd
           and gfsd are gfmd-$ID.log and gfsd-$ID.log, respectively. Default directory is
           scratch_dir/log. This option is available only for gfarmbb start.

       -m mount_point
           When this option is specified, a Gfarm/BB is mounted at the specified mount point on
           each compute node. mount.gfarm2fs is required. This option is available only for
           gfarmbb start.

       -p period
           specifies the period of a shared secret key in seconds for Gfarm/BB. This period
           should be longer than the job execution duration. Default is 86400 seconds (1 day).
           This option is available only for gfarmbb start.

       -c
           generates C-shell commands. This option is available only for gfarmbb start.

       -s
           generates Bourne shell commands. This option is available only for gfarmbb start. This
           is default.