[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Adding utility to do a volume dump table of contents...

[Ken Hornstein]

>I'm sorry to say we wrote tocvol last summer, though we called it list.
>But here's the interesting part.  We recently started testing our code
>on our production AFS servers and found that for large volume sets of
>20-30 GB and lots of files, "list" can an inordinate amount of time.
>For most of our volume sets it's not too bad, but in our worst case it
>continues to run for a few hours after the actual dump has finished.
>We've been looking at our code to try to find out why but haven't yet
>found an obvious problem.  The programmer who did our coding is right
>now looking at tocvol to see if he can find any obvious algorithmical
>difference, in hopes that you may have solved our problem.  :-)

I have noticed in dumptool (since you say "list" is based off of it) there
are plenty of places for performance enhancements (I know it doesn't perform
that well with larger volume dumps).  It's been on my "list" (ha ha) to
look at, but you know how that goes ...

--Ken