Re: [OpenAFS] 'split' a tree of directory into volumes?

2004-02-09 Thread Todd M. Lewis
Lester Barrows wrote: [... good stuff about 'up' not preserving directory timestamps...] It seems to work as-is, but begs the question: If it's that easy, do you (or does anyone) know why this isn't done already? Sure: Nobody's contributed the code. Seriously. When I added the bits to make i

Re: [OpenAFS] 'split' a tree of directory into volumes?

2004-02-09 Thread Lester Barrows
Todd, I've used the up command for the occasional splitting of a volume, but noticed that it doesn't preserve timestamps on directories. It's possible of course, though cumbersome, to go back and set them after the fact as long as the original directory still exists. To get around this I went t

Re: [OpenAFS] 'split' a tree of directory into volumes?

2004-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Todd Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael, > You may have to wrap a script around it to handle the details, but you > may end up using the 'up' utility to get the data into the volumes. 'up' > is a recursive 'cp' that knows about and copies ACLs as well as files. > Hardly anybody knows abo

Re: [OpenAFS] 'split' a tree of directory into volumes?

2004-02-07 Thread Todd Lewis
Michael, You may have to wrap a script around it to handle the details, but you may end up using the 'up' utility to get the data into the volumes. 'up' is a recursive 'cp' that knows about and copies ACLs as well as files. Hardly anybody knows about it though, and fewer use it. It also knows

[OpenAFS] 'split' a tree of directory into volumes?

2004-02-07 Thread Michael Loftis
OK I have a large number of directories, in this case a dated archive, it's all been in one volume for quite some time, but now that volume is unmanageably large. Going forward I can easily vos create and fs mkmount, but for the existing stuff I was wondeirng if anyone wrote a scrip to take a