From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdar: efficiently backup allocated bytes in file systems
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:13:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320011306.GR2971@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080318235201.GE155407@sgi.com>
On Mar 19, 2008 10:52 +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:06:27PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> > Does xfs_copy tend to assert the XFS file format in the backup files it
> > generates?
>
> Yes. If the destination is a file, the resultant image is a sparse
> file that is a mountable XFS filesystem.
The "e2image" program also works in that manner.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-18 1:13 bdar: efficiently backup allocated bytes in file systems Zach Brown
2008-03-18 7:47 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-03-20 16:25 ` Zach Brown
2008-03-18 21:35 ` David Chinner
2008-03-18 22:06 ` Zach Brown
2008-03-18 23:52 ` David Chinner
2008-03-20 0:26 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-03-20 1:13 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2008-03-20 0:32 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-19 2:58 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-19 3:10 ` Zach Brown
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