On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:02:37AM -0400, David R Boldt wrote:
>
> * if the read/write version of a volume has not changed since
> the last release, will "vos release" no-op, or will it try to
> synchronize anyway.
It will try to sync with the RO copies. However, it will only update the
modified information.
> * would it make sense to attempt to determine whether a volume
> has changed before doing a release? --I don't have a very good
> sense for how resource expensive "vos release" is.
>
> if it would be a good idea to only release when necessary, is there
> a more efficient way to discover whether a read/write volume has
> changed since the last release other than comparing the mtimes
> of all directories in the volumes?
> Is anyone else doing this sort of thing?
We do this very thing with a perl script with a large number of our
volumes. However, you can check the "Last Update" time of a read-write
volume against one of it's corresponding read-only volumes to determine
if a vos release needs to be done (done with a vos exam). You can check
just one read-only copy, or all of them.
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