>> Does current AFS documentation mention the concept of a 'volume owner'
>> explicitly?
Duh, what's a documentation? ;-)
>> I was aware that the owner of a directory had implicit admin rights on
>> that directory,
This used to be the case, but is no longer.
>> Has this feature been added rather recently or has it always been that
>> way?
It's 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.
Sounds like a win to me.
Marc
