[OpenAFS] Parsing volume info off local fileservers

[Peter Scott]

We desire to dump metadata about all directories in the local cell to a 
database, including, but not limited to, the locations of mount points 
and ACLs.  Sanity checks on performance and capacity say this is quite doable.

Currently we gather this data via client side code doing ordinary tree 
walking.  Hideous execution time as you might expect, not to mention 
server and network impact.  We know it can be done on the server 
instead by parsing the volume headers and snagging the raw inodes.  We 
have pointers to some code that leads in that direction, but it leaves 
much to the imagination and a lot of work to be done.  We'd much rather 
be Lazy.  Has anyone done anything like this already or knows someone 
else who has?
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Peter Scott
Peter.J.Scott@jpl.nasa.gov