Name

dmp2dir — Converts .dmp directory into .dir format

Synopsis

dmp2dir [-nsegments number] [-bufsize number] [-monitor] input

Description

Converts an .dmp directory, which is produced by instantiators or instantiator1 to an .dir directory which can be read by the distributed data reduction tools. The name of the output directory is: input.dir in which input is first part of the name of .dmp directory: input.dmp

The tools ltscp, ltscmp, and ltsmin allow .dmp input directories

Options

-nsegments number

The number of segments which will be written

Default is equal to the number of segments found in the input directory

-monitor

Display progressing information

-bufsize number

Set the size of the IO buffers (in bytes). Advantages of taking a large number are: less (expensive) flushes, and contiguous files.

Last update

16 December 2008 by Bert Lisser