FSI_GENERATE(1)

NAME
fsi_generate - Creates a depot.image filesystem image file

SYNOPSIS
fsi_generate path

DESCRIPTION
fsi_generate creates a "FileSystem Image" file that contains a list of all files and directories in a collection. This file is then read in by depot, allowing depot to avoid stat(2)'ing all the files and directories in a collection every time depot runs.

fsi_generate is typically called in the last stages of the release process. Once an image file is present, depot will use it exclusively. If the collection changes and fsi_generate has not been re-run, depot will assume that the collection has not changed. This may result in depot exiting with a non-intuitive error message.

EXAMPLES

fsi_generate /path/to/my/collection >
    /path/to/my/collection/depot.image

FILES
[collection_dir]/depot.image
        This is the default location for the FS-image file.

SEE ALSO
depot(1), hintservice(1),stat(2)

AUTHOR
Sohan C. Ramakrishna-Pillai