> AFS *does* have the concept of a volume owner, which happens to be
> the owner of the mountpoint.
Does current AFS documentation mention the concept of a 'volume owner'
explicitly? Anyway, to be precise the owner is the owner of the top
level directory of the volume that is mounted at a mount point, not the
owner of the mountpoint (which is little more than a symbolic link).
> As far as I know, the only privilege the owner has over a volume is
> implicit admin access over all directories in the volume.
I was aware that the owner of a directory had implicit admin rights on
that directory, but it wasn't clear to me that in addition the owner of
a volume top level directory had such rights on all subdirectories.
Maybe I even suggested this feature at some point in time, because
without it, an 'i' privilege given to somebody else would enable him to
insert a subdirectory and use his implicit 'a' privilege as the owner
of that subdirectory to make it inaccessible and unremovable for me.
Has this feature been added rather recently or has it always been that
way?
In fact, this feature invalidates my previous argument, and I don't see
a reason anymore why such a 'volume owner' shouldn't be allowed to dump
or restore (replacing the current volume on the same partition) the
volume at his discretion. This would also allow releases without having
to change the concept that a release is a dump/restore coordinated by
the client.
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