• infos = Information about the file plugin is in keys below
• infos/author = Thomas Waser thoma.nosp@m.s.wa.nosp@m.ser@l.nosp@m.ibel.nosp@m.ektra.nosp@m..org
• infos/licence = BSD
• infos/needs =
• infos/provides = storage/file
• infos/recommends =
• infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
• infos/status = specific unittest tested nodep libc configurable preview experimental
• infos/metadata =
• infos/description = reads complete file into a key

The file plugin reads the content of a file and stores it into the parent key.

• binary

  treats the file as a binary file instead of a text file

• info

  adds additional informations about the file as metadata to the parent key.

  • info/size filesize
  • info/ctime time of last status change
  • info/atime time of last access
  • info/mtime time of last modification
  • info/uid user ID of owner
  • info/gid group ID of owner
  • info/mode protection
  • info/inode inode number

kdb mount file /testfile file

None.

`` @section autotoc_md222 Mount the filefile/multilineatsystem:/tests/file` sudo kdb mount "$PWD/src/plugins/file/file/singleline" system:/tests/file file info=

Check the content of the file

kdb get system:/tests/file #> this is a single line testfile

List available attributes of the mounted file

kdb meta-ls system:/tests/file #> info/atime #> info/ctime #> info/gid #> info/inode #> info/mode #> info/mtime #> info/size #> info/uid

Check out the file’s permissions

kdb meta-get system:/tests/file info/mode

STDOUT-REGEX: 1006[46]4

Unmount the file

sudo kdb umount system:/tests/file ```

Limitations

None.