'--version',
action='version',
version=u"%s %s" % (sys.argv[0], __version__),
- help='Print version and exit.',
+ help="Print version and exit",
)
self.add_argument(
'mountpoint',
metavar='MOUNT_DIR',
- help="""Mount point.""",
+ help="Directory path to mount data",
)
mode_group = self.add_argument_group("Mount contents")
const='all',
dest='mode',
help="""
-Mount a subdirectory for each mode: home, shared, by_tag, by_id
-(default if no --mount-* arguments are given).
+Mount a subdirectory for each mode: home, shared, by_id, and by_tag
+(default if no --mount-* options are given)
""",
)
mode.add_argument(
const=None,
dest='mode',
help="""
-Mount a top level meta-directory with subdirectories as specified by additional --mount-* arguments
-(default if any --mount-* arguments are given).
+Mount a subdirectory for each mode specified by a --mount-* option
+(default if any --mount-* options are given;
+see "Mount custom layout and filtering" section)
""",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--collection',
metavar='UUID_OR_PDH',
- help="""Mount only the specified collection.""",
+ help="Mount the specified collection",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--home',
action='store_const',
const='home',
dest='mode',
- help="""Mount only the user's home project.""",
+ help="Mount your home project",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--project',
metavar='UUID',
- help="""Mount the specified project.""",
+ help="Mount the specified project",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--shared',
action='store_const',
const='shared',
dest='mode',
- help="""Mount only list of projects shared with the user.""",
+ help="Mount a subdirectory for each project shared with you",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--by-id',
action='store_const',
const='by_id',
dest='mode',
- help="""Mount subdirectories listed by portable data hash or uuid.""",
+ help="""
+Mount a magic directory where collections and projects are accessible through
+subdirectories named after their UUID or portable data hash
+""",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--by-pdh',
action='store_const',
const='by_pdh',
dest='mode',
- help="""Mount subdirectories listed by portable data hash.""",
+ help="""
+Mount a magic directory where collections are accessible through
+subdirectories named after their portable data hash
+""",
)
mode.add_argument(
'--by-tag',
action='store_const',
const='by_tag',
dest='mode',
- help="""Mount subdirectories listed by tag.""",
+ help="Mount a subdirectory for each tag attached to a collection or project",
)
mounts = self.add_argument_group("Mount custom layout and filtering")
metavar='PATH',
action='append',
default=[],
- help="Mount the current user's home project at mountpoint/PATH.",
+ help="Make your home project available under the mount at PATH",
)
mounts.add_argument(
'--mount-by-id',
action='append',
default=[],
help="""
-Mount each readable collection at mountpoint/PATH/UUID and mountpoint/PATH/PDH
-where PDH is the collection's portable data hash and UUID is its UUID.
+Make a magic directory available under the mount at PATH where collections and
+projects are accessible through subdirectories named after their UUID or
+portable data hash
""",
)
mounts.add_argument(
action='append',
default=[],
help="""
-Mount each readable collection at mountpoint/PATH/P
-where P is the collection's portable data hash.
+Make a magic directory available under the mount at PATH where collections
+are accessible through subdirectories named after portable data hash
""",
)
mounts.add_argument(
metavar='PATH',
action='append',
default=[],
- help="Mount projects shared with the current user at mountpoint/PATH.",
+ help="Make projects shared with you available under the mount at PATH",
)
mounts.add_argument(
'--mount-by-tag',
metavar='PATH',
action='append',
default=[],
- help="Mount all collections with tag TAG at mountpoint/PATH/TAG/UUID.",
+ help="""
+Make a subdirectory for each tag attached to a collection or project available
+under the mount at PATH
+""" ,
)
mounts.add_argument(
'--mount-tmp',
action='append',
default=[],
help="""
-Create a new collection, mount it in read/write mode at mountpoint/PATH,
-and delete it when unmounting.
+Make a new temporary writable collection available under the mount at PATH.
+This collection is deleted when the mount is unmounted.
""",
)
perms.add_argument(
'--allow-other',
action='store_true',
- help="""Let other users read the mount""",
+ help="Let other users on this system read mounted data (default false)",
)
perms.add_argument(
'--read-only',
action='store_false',
default=False,
dest='enable_write',
- help="Mount will be read only (default)",
+ help="Mounted data cannot be modified from the mount (default)",
)
perms.add_argument(
'--read-write',
action='store_true',
default=False,
dest='enable_write',
- help="Mount will be read-write",
+ help="Mounted data can be modified from the mount",
)
lifecycle = self.add_argument_group("Mount lifecycle management")
'--foreground',
action='store_true',
default=False,
- help="""Run in foreground (default is to daemonize unless --exec specified)""",
+ help="Run mount process in the foreground instead of daemonizing (default false)",
)
lifecycle.add_argument(
'--subtype',
- help="""Report mounted filesystem type as "fuse.SUBTYPE", instead of just "fuse".""",
+ help="Set mounted filesystem type to `fuse.SUBTYPE` (default is just `fuse`)",
)
unmount = lifecycle.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
unmount.add_argument(
action='store_true',
default=False,
help="""
-If a fuse mount is already present at mountpoint, forcefully unmount it before mounting
+If a FUSE mount is already mounted at the given directory,
+unmount it before mounting the requested data.
+If --subtype is specified, unmount only if the mount has that subtype.
+WARNING: This command can affect any kind of FUSE mount, not just arv-mount.
""",
)
unmount.add_argument(
action='store_true',
default=False,
help="""
-Forcefully unmount the specified mountpoint (if it's a fuse mount) and exit.
-If --subtype is given, unmount only if the mount has the specified subtype.
-WARNING: This command can affect any kind of fuse mount, not just arv-mount.
+If a FUSE mount is already mounted at the given directory, unmount it and exit.
+If --subtype is specified, unmount only if the mount has that subtype.
+WARNING: This command can affect any kind of FUSE mount, not just arv-mount.
""",
)
unmount.add_argument(
action='store_true',
default=False,
help="""
-Forcefully unmount every fuse mount at or below the specified path and exit.
-If --subtype is given, unmount only mounts that have the specified subtype.
-Exit non-zero if any other types of mounts are found at or below the given path.
-WARNING: This command can affect any kind of fuse mount, not just arv-mount.
+Unmount all FUSE mounts at or below the given directory, then exit.
+If --subtype is specified, unmount only if the mount has that subtype.
+WARNING: This command can affect any kind of FUSE mount, not just arv-mount.
""",
)
lifecycle.add_argument(
default=2.0,
metavar='SECONDS',
help="""
-Time to wait for graceful shutdown after --exec program exits and filesystem is unmounted
+The number of seconds to wait for a clean unmount after an --exec command has
+exited (default %(default).01f).
+After this time, the mount will be forcefully unmounted.
""",
)
reporting.add_argument(
'--debug',
action='store_true',
- help="""Debug mode""",
+ help="Log debug information",
)
reporting.add_argument(
'--logfile',
- help="""Write debug logs and errors to the specified file (default stderr).""",
+ help="Write debug logs and errors to the specified file (default stderr)",
)
cache = self.add_argument_group("Mount local cache setup")
action='store_true',
default=True,
dest='disk_cache',
- help="Use disk based caching (default)",
+ help="Cache data on the local filesystem (default)",
)
cachetype.add_argument(
'--ram-cache',
action='store_false',
default=True,
dest='disk_cache',
- help="Use in-memory caching only",
+ help="Cache data in memory",
)
cache.add_argument(
'--disk-cache-dir',
metavar="DIRECTORY",
- help="Disk cache location (default ~/.cache/arvados/keep)",
+ help="Filesystem cache location (default ~/.cache/arvados/keep)",
)
cache.add_argument(
'--directory-cache',
type=int,
default=128*1024*1024,
metavar='BYTES',
- help="Directory data cache size, in bytes (default 128 MiB)",
+ help="Size of directory data cache in bytes (default 128 MiB)",
)
cache.add_argument(
'--file-cache',
default=0,
metavar='BYTES',
help="""
-File data cache size, in bytes
-(default 8 GiB for disk-based cache or 256 MiB with RAM-only cache)
+Size of file data cache in bytes
+(default 8 GiB for filesystem cache, 256 MiB for memory cache)
""",
)
action='store_true',
dest='disable_event_listening',
default=False,
- help="Don't subscribe to events on the API server",
+ help="Don't subscribe to events on the API server to update mount contents",
)
plumbing.add_argument(
'--encoding',
default="utf-8",
help="""
-Character encoding to use for filesystem, default is utf-8
-(see Python codec registry for list of available encodings)
+Filesystem character encoding
+(default %(default)r; specify a name from the Python codec registry)
""",
)
plumbing.add_argument(
'--storage-classes',
metavar='CLASSES',
- help="Specify comma separated list of storage classes to be used when saving data of new collections",
+ help="Comma-separated list of storage classes to request for new collections",
)