From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kBL7gBqw001825 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:42:13 -0800 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GxIYJ-0004e7-0r for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:41:19 +0100 Received: from finn.gmane.org ([80.91.229.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:41:19 +0100 Received: from mszpak by finn.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:41:19 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Marcin_Zaj=B1czkowski?= Subject: Re: xfs_ncheck (actually xfs_db) eats a lot of memory and is killed Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:42:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200612200059.LAA04335@larry.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200612200059.LAA04335@larry.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Barry Naujok wrote: (...) >> Btw, is it possible to mount XFS filesystem from the file created by >> xfs_copy? >> If not, is it possible to restore file system "backuped" to file (by >> xfs_copy)? I read in the manual that the first parameter >> xfs_copy has to >> be device (not file). xfs_restore will work with that "dump"? > > Yes, you can mount an XFS filesystem file using the "-o loop" mount > option and specifying the file for the device. > > Yes, you can xfs_copy from a file back to a device. From the man page: > "The first (source) argument must be the pathname of the device or file > containing the XFS filesystem.". In fact. I don't know why I missed it earlier. Thanks Marcin