On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:39:55PM +0100, Sergio Gelato wrote: > > It seems like the dumps would have to (at a minimum) have all of the > > objects appear in the same order every time for this to work reasonably.
... > I've been glancing at rdiff-backup recently (along with a few other tools). > The main advantages of vos dump are that (a) it knows about AFS-specific > metadata like ACLs, and (b) it may be able to keep track of file renames > within a volume (although I haven't checked that it actually does). But > maybe, if one were given a tool to extract all AFS metadata from a volume, > the rest could be handled with rdiff-backup's mechanism of computing xdeltas > on individual files, not on the entire dumpset at once. looking at src/volser/dumpstuff.c, it appears that dumps are done in ascending vnode order. AFAIK, rename is a first-class operation so it should only dirty the source and dest dirs. john _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
