[OpenAFS] Re: Moving large data from volume to volume

[Derrick Brashear]

we could do it as an extension to rename, and rpc refresh should make
provision for doing so.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:51:42 +0200
> "Mag. Mike B. Kerber" <michael.kerber@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> While reorganising our afs tree layout i was wondering if there is a
>> on-server possibility to move large data set from a volume to another
>> one (both RW on the same server) without sending the data itself over
>> the wire.
>
> No (at least, not without fiddling with the internal on-disk
> structures). However, there is some code for the functionality of
> "splitting" a volume into two volumes at a directory boundary, though it
> is not yet fully functional in the stock OpenAFS source. It doesn't seem
> like it would be too difficult to add the opposite functionality:
> merging two volumes together. If those two operations existed, you could
> have a way to move data like that, although it is perhaps a bit clumsy.
>
> Or we could just make an operation to move/copy a file from one volume
> to another if they're on the same partition. But nothing exists like
> that now. (Naively, it seems like RXAFS_Rename could be made to do this,
> hmm...)
>
> You can of course issue the move from a client running on the
> fileserver, which may reduce some of the network overhead, but that's
> still much slower than a rename().
>
>> Judging from performance this seems to be what happens...
>
> Yeah.
>
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> Andrew Deason
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Derrick