HOARD(1)

NAME
hoard - Hoard database front-end

SYNOPSIS
hoard [ -d ] [ -f source | cmds ]

DESCRIPTION

hoard is a front-end to the hoard database (HDB) managed by the Coda cache manager, Venus. The HDB provides a means for users to explicitly control Venus caching behavior. HDB entries specify the degree of a users interest in particular file system objects. Venus combines this information with implicit knowledge that it has about file access patterns to try to keep the "best" set of objects in its cache at all times. The HDB is maintained in non-volatile storage, so it survives Venus restarts and client reboots.

Users manipulate the HDB by issuing commands to the hoard program. The following hoard commands are currently recognized:

add filename attributes

clear uid

delete filename

list outfile uid

modify filename attributes

Hoard distinguishes between children of a directory, which are members of the directory, descendants which are either children or descendants of childres of the directory.

Commands may be abbreviated by their first letter. Parameters in angle brackets are optional, and have default values if unspecified. The attributes parameter is specified as a string of options separated by : characters. The currently recognized options are:

1-1000
    Assign this object the hoard priority indicated.

c   Current children of this directory will inherit its hoard status.

c+  Current and future children of this directory will inherit its hoard status.

d   Current descendents of this directory will inherit its hoard status.

d+  Current and future descendents of this directory will inherit its hoard status

If the uid in the clear and list commands is unspecified, the entries of all users are cleared or listed respectively. The default hoard priority is 10.

  EXAMPLE HOARD COMMAND FILE
clear
add /coda/project/coda/src 100:d+
add /coda/usr/jjk/.login   1000

Access to the hoard database is restricted in the following ways. All hoard commands fail unless the hoard program is executed by the user who is identified as the primary user in the venus.conf configuration file. If no primary user is specified, special permission is given to the console user who is logged in on the local (or first virtual) console. Primary users may add entries and access existing entries without restriction. Other users may not add hoard entries, and they may only clear, delete, list, or modify their own entries.

The command-line options are:

-d  Enables debugging output.

-f  Take commands from source. -f must be the last argument if specified. An argument of - means, use stdin as the source file. Source statements may be given directly on the command line (one per line) by enclosing them in single quotes.

DIAGNOSTICS

Hoard copies command lines that it cannot parse to stderr. If a syntactically correct command is rejected by Venus, the corresponding pioctl, its arguments, and the errno are copied to stderr.

BUGS

•   Negative priorities should be allowed.

SEE ALSO

venus(8)

AUTHORS

•   Jay Kistler, 1990, Created