[OpenAFS] Volume management for non-AFS-admins

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nathan Rawling wrote:

> > I imagine that many AFS sites have such a facility in production.
> > I`d very appreciate any pointers/comments to such tools.
> 
> The last time I had to solve this problem (a few years ago), I used ADM
> from Carnegie-Mellon. ADM is a client-server application scriptable in
> Scheme, a LISP derivative.
> 
> I know a number of sites have used it to great success, although I found
> the Scheme authoring to be a somewhat distasteful part of the process. I
> did manage to implement a number of functions that you are describing
> though with this tool.

I sat down and learned enough scheme over about 3 days to start using ADM
after a coworker who used to maintain it left. I've extended it since but
it needs autoconf cleanup. I dislike writing scheme, but for a clever
person it's probably easy; I mean, if I can do it imagine what someone
smart can do;-)

> I always told myself, however, that if I had to do it over again, I would
> write a daemon in Perl using some of the client/server modules available
> there, and possibly the AFS module, although it was dreadfully out-of-date
> the last time I looked at it.

We've had the same idea on and off, but no time.