[3256] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Dealing with Linux Athena and restricted packages.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Apr 28 02:34:06 2002
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "27 Apr 2002 23:03:22 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:34:02 -0400
> Okay, so the only advantage of voldump is that you can specify a volume
> by name, and it will translate it to an id by listing the volumes on the
> specified partition and finding the one which matches.
>
> Jonathon, if you think ops is comfortable without this convenience, then
> I can remove voldump from the release.
IIRC, the reason for voldump was so that we could dump and restore
from a particular copy of a RO volume, though I'll admit I'm blanking
on the exact reason we wanted to do this. Given that it is possible
to do this wihtout voldump, I'm comfortable with "dumping" it.
Jonathon
