I think Lyle actually meant 'write permissions on the root directory of
the volume in question'.
I would restrict it to 'admin permissions on the root directory of the
volume' and consider such a user the 'owner' of an AFS volume. Though
AFS doesn't have the concept of a volume owner, it might be useful to
introduce it, and with the method in question, you would have all the
benefits of an ACL for ownership, in particular that you can have
multiple owners.
On the other hand, someone with admin permission on the root directory
of a volume can currently mess up the volume at will by renaming all
subdirectories, but he cannot necessarily get any access within these
subdirectories. While it looks like it would make sense to allow a
volume owner to do a 'vos dump', it might give him the ability to read
files which he otherwise could have renamed - and thus made useless -
but not read.
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