[OpenAFS-devel] status of src/tests

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:48:03 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> Oh, dear.  There's a copy of dumptool in there?  That's probably as 
> out-of-date as the copy of my volume dump utilities, the latest version of 
> which can be found in /afs/grand.central.org/software/dumpscan.

I don't think Ken did any work to dumptool since then.

> I don't think either of those tools, or various others, really belong in the 
> OpenAFS distribution.  OpenAFS should concentrate on being a filesystem, not 
> on incorporating into its distribution every tool someone might want to use 
> with it.

Because dumps are portable. Oh wait. They're not. OpenAFS implements them.
You're diluting your point by making it on this particular topic.