Does it require access to source? Although that will be moot shortly. -- Nathan > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Hornstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Amanda and AFS [was: OpenAFS enhancements wishlist] > > > >Ken Hornstein has written a program "dumptool" which is part > of MR-AFS > >and does more or less what you ask for. With dumptool you can > >interactively go through the file-tree in the "vos > dump"-File and copy > >files which are contained in the dump to a path you can specify. This > >tool should work also with standard AFS dumps because they are just a > >subset of what MR-AFS knows. > > Let me explain a bit further before I get more email about this :-) > > I wrote this originally to handle MR-AFS dumps, because when dealing > with MR-AFS, you sometimes need to get the residency filename of a > particular file (don't ask, you _really_ don't want to know). > > Hartmut is correct in that my program also works fine on regular AFS > dumps; the tricky part is that without MR-AFS, you can't actually > COMPILE the dang thing, because you need some of the MR-AFS magic > to make it compile. You could certainly make this program compile > without MR-AFS; I just haven't done so. If someone wants to take > a stab at it, I'd be glad to send it to them, _with_ the understanding > that I'd want their changes back so I could finally distribute the > thing for real (it's also got some minor to medium user interface > issues that need ironed out, but I view those as less critical). > > --Ken >
