>> What I wonder is - how hard would it be to access the contents of an AFS >> volume from a file server, without going through AFS itself - i.e. by direct >> file access - sortof a really fast 'vos dump' equivalent. > >Good question. Now that we have the source I'm sure it would be >possible to figure out the structure and read it directly from >disk. Maybe somebody's even done this already. I've done part of that already (dumptool takes a reasonable stab at documenting the dump structure). However ... I'm not completely convinced that it will be _that_ much faster, since I suspect the bottleneck is reading the data off of the disk (lots of seeks). But hey, I could be wrong. --Ken
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