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

[Neulinger, Nathan]

The tool you are referring to _reads_ dumps on disk. voldump (in
/usr/afs/bin on servers built from trunk) directly reads disk
files/inodes to _write_ a dump file.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horst Birthelmer [mailto:horst@riback.net]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:58 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: Mitch Collinsworth; openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] vol-dump.c and large file dumps...
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> On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
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> > 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=20
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> > yet - it's definately in the head/trunk though.
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> > The main issue with using it is that there is no locking. It is
> > transparent to the currently running server, but there is a=20
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> > of getting data while it is being modified.
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> > As near as I can tell, the speed seems faster, but not=20
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> > 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=20
> to lock the
> > volume.
> >
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> What are you talking about??
> I was talking about the dumptool from the testing directory.
> That operates on the dumps directly on disk.
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> Horst
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