[OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 18:30:00 -0600 Nathan Neulinger 
<nneul@umr.edu> wrote:

> Actually, you don't even need to go to that much trouble, just install a
> copy of the voldump tool (built as part of the normal build now, at
> least with cvs/1.3.x I believe), it will generate a dump directly from
> the local data without even running a server. Might only work with namei
> though, don't have a inode fileserver to test it with.

Indeed, I hadn't thought of that.
I see no reason it shouldn't work with inode fileservers; as far as I know 
it uses the same indirection mechanism used by the fileserver and 
volserver.  Of course, to recover data on an inode fileserver, you do have 
to have the AFS kernel module loaded, just as you would to run a 
fileserver.  But you _don't_ have to actually start an AFS client; just 
loading the module is sufficient to provide the magic system calls for 
manipulating the data on the vice partitions.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA