From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Userspace cp and ls utility
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:36:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C2EEC5.4020804@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C0B0E4.7020403@l4x.org>
Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Are there utilities for xfs which are able to ls and
> cp from an _unmounted_ xfs volume? I fear that by
> mounting the volume - even ro - I would lose even more
> data.
> Or can I achieve such an effect with other xfs related
> utilities?
Mounting ro should be fine - if you also mount with "norecovery" then truly no
IO should happen. If you're really paranoid, find a utility to mark the block
device itself as read-only, then you've taken it out of the filesystem's hands
completely.
You could also try xfs_copy, it makes a copy of the filesystem and works on the
underlying device, with the filesystem unmounted. There's a man page for it.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-23 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-21 10:48 Userspace cp and ls utility Jan Dittmer
2006-07-23 3:36 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-07-23 8:17 ` Jan Dittmer
2006-07-23 14:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-07-23 15:34 ` Jan Dittmer
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