[3254] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Dealing with Linux Athena and restricted packages.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Apr 27 19:28:27 2002
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:28:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200204272328.TAA12516@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
CC: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[3247] in Release_7.7_team"
>> voldump is a modified version of "vos dump" which can dump a volume
>> without talking to the VLDB. Garry says he never uses it, but Jonathon
>> might still care about it. We could certainly replace it with a free
>> version based on OpenAFS source, but it would be actual work.
Some testing I just did and looking at the source code for a modern
"vos" indicates that it won't access the VLDB during a "vos dump" if
you:
- specify the volume id instead of a name.
- specify a server and partition to dump from.
I tested this in the zone cell on a variety of volumes, and tested when
there were no vlservers running (on volumes I hadn't previously
accessed), so am fairly confident we can get the functionality we want
without voldump.
Garry
