[OpenAFS-devel] vol-dump.c and large file dumps...

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> It hasn't always existed... I wrote it as a utility program and for
> testing purposes several months ago... Not even sure it's in any 
> release
> yet - it's definately in the head/trunk though.
>
> The main issue with using it is that there is no locking. It is
> transparent to the currently running server, but there is a possibility
> of getting data while it is being modified.
>
> As near as I can tell, the speed seems faster, but not tremendously so.
> You might try it out on your systems and see if is faster. If it is,
> could probably add in calls to volserver/fileserver locally to lock the
> volume.
>

What are you talking about??
I was talking about the dumptool from the testing directory.
That operates on the dumps directly on disk.


Horst