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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "L.A. Walsh" <xfs@tlinx.org>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: why crc req on free-inobt & file-type-indir options?
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:11:28 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150809001127.GI3902@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C5709F.8030705@tlinx.org>

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:59:43PM -0700, L.A. Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >
> >>On Aug 7, 2015, at 5:50 PM, L.A. Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org> wrote:
> >>Q: should the versions of xfsdump&restore be the same as the rest of the xfsprogs?
> >Nope, they are separate packages with separate versioning.
> ---
> I see.  So how does one tell which version of xfsdump/restore should
> be used to "safely" dump (and restore) a file system made
> with version i.j.k of xfsprogs(mkfs.xfs) ?  Or is that possible?

xfsdump does not care what version of the XFS filesystem it operates
on as it does not access the raw on-disk srtuctures. i.e.
xfsdump/restore are just like any other userspace application that
uses standard syscalls and ioctls to read/write information to/from
the filesystem.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-09  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07  2:52 why crc req on free-inobt & file-type-indir options? L.A. Walsh
2015-08-07  5:00 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-08-07  8:14   ` L.A. Walsh
2015-08-07 17:01     ` Eric Sandeen
2015-08-07 22:55     ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-08  0:50       ` L.A. Walsh
2015-08-08  1:45         ` Eric Sandeen
2015-08-08  2:59           ` L.A. Walsh
2015-08-09  0:11             ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2015-08-13  0:24       ` L.A. Walsh
2015-08-07  8:17   ` L.A. Walsh
2015-08-07  5:36 ` Eric Sandeen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-07  2:53 L.A. Walsh

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