[OpenAFS-devel] File copying

[Bernie O'Connor]

All,

I am not a guru, but I've been following the discussion about file copying between afs servers and minimizing the overhead of the client initiated copy operation (bypassing cache manager of the client).  I haven't looked at the code very closely, but there is an open protocol for network based backups (www.ndmp.org).  They are addressing the same kind of problem (network based storage devices directly contacting the output device for high performance backups).  Someone further interested in the topic might want to take a look at their efforts.

my .01

bernie