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: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:21:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C385DE.100@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C33080.3060108@l4x.org>
Jan Dittmer wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is there any difference to using dd when the destination is no xfs
> filesystem? And if I read the description correctly it does not allow
> to copy individual files?
xfs_copy knows about the xfs format, so it only copies what it needs to. dd
will copy every bit on the source disk. So, xfs_copy is more efficient. There
is no option to copy individual files.
Depending on the problem with your original filesystem, perhaps xfs_copy might
not be the best choice.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-23 14:21 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
2006-07-23 8:17 ` Jan Dittmer
2006-07-23 14:21 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-07-23 15:34 ` Jan Dittmer
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