[OpenAFS] inode to namei process

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:54:36 -0400


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On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> wrote:

> Simon Wilkinson wrote:
>
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>> On 1 Jul 2008, at 18:20, Jeff Blaine wrote:
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>>  Is there a good way to dump and restore active RW volumes?
>>> We'd like to make each RW volume briefly unavailable during
>>> the process: block, dump, restore, unblock
>>>
>>
>> Assuming from your subject that you're trying to migrate from a inode
>> fileserver to a namei one, can you not use vos move?
>>
>
> I don't know, can I? :)  Sounds good to me!  This was a feeler
> to make sure there's nothing more involved required.  If
> that will work for the conversion requirements, we're all for it.
>

as long as you're not trying to do it "in-place" vos move works fine.
if you're trying to do it in-place, obviously your binary will support
either-or... and so it won't work at all.

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Jeff Blaine &lt;<a href="mailto:jblaine@kickflop.net">jblaine@kickflop.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Simon Wilkinson wrote:<br>
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On 1 Jul 2008, at 18:20, Jeff Blaine wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is there a good way to dump and restore active RW volumes?<br>
We&#39;d like to make each RW volume briefly unavailable during<br>
the process: block, dump, restore, unblock<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Assuming from your subject that you&#39;re trying to migrate from a inode fileserver to a namei one, can you not use vos move?<br>
</blockquote>
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I don&#39;t know, can I? :) &nbsp;Sounds good to me! &nbsp;This was a feeler<br>
to make sure there&#39;s nothing more involved required. &nbsp;If<br>
that will work for the conversion requirements, we&#39;re all for it.<div></div></blockquote><div><br>as long as you&#39;re not trying to do it &quot;in-place&quot; vos move works fine.<br>if you&#39;re trying to do it in-place, obviously your binary will support either-or... and so it won&#39;t work at all.<br>
<br><br>&nbsp;<br></div></div><br>

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