From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p5PLgdHV147100 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:42:40 -0500 Received: from firestarter.dermichi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0D7472E70A for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firestarter.dermichi.com (firestarter.dermichi.com [78.41.115.230]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id t3mm3s28ohLx5Bug for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speechless.lan.dermichi.com ([2001:470:26:2a9:4a5b:39ff:fe18:7163]) by firestarter.dermichi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qaacd-0000zE-1T for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:42:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4E065648.4070904@dermichi.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:42:32 +0200 From: Michael Weissenbacher MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfsrestore seems to hang References: <87oc1ln8xx.fsf@psinom.home> <87iprtn4s9.fsf@psinom.home> In-Reply-To: <87iprtn4s9.fsf@psinom.home> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi Prad! > > so is it possible that the xfsrestore system has to go through the > motion of handling the entire file even when it's just extracting a > small part of it and things will take their time? > Yes, that's simply the way it works. It has to go through the whole dump to restore one file. Same thing as if you used tar. Both were originally designed to be written to tape. So if you want to restore single files you should look for another solution. I like to use rsync a lot for that. cheers, michael _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs