[AFS3-std] Extending AFSVolDump
Ken Hornstein
kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:39:27 -0400
>I want to extend AFSVolDump to add a flag indicating that incremental dumps
>should not include complete copies of directories that have not change.
>Dumps of this form are already generated by AFSVolForward, for the
>incremental dumps used to clean up at the end of a move or release. I want
>to make it possible to do the same thing when you have a system which dumps
>a volume with AFSVolDump, processes the dump, and then restores it to some
>server with AFSVolRestore.
Just curious ... is this because you want to avoid the extra overhead
associated with including directories that don't change? I would guess
this would only matter for volumes that have a lot of directories.
--Ken