On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:08 pm, ict technician wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 17:19, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:15 pm, ict technician wrote: > > > I have a broken fs dump I need to fix. Is there a diagnostic/repair > > > tool I can use? I know about restore -N. > > > > > > <No I didn't verify, and yes that was a mistake> > > > > > > Dump was taken on 4.10. Restoring on 5.3BETA, although I can change > > > that. > > > > A question rather than an answer:---- > > Is it valid to dump a ufs file system and try to restore it to a ufs2 > > system? > > > > Malcolm > > wrt dump: > on 5.x dump has to understand ufs2. However, you might choose to use ufs; > so it has to deal with that. Since dump does both, restore must do both. > QED :) >
I agree with the argument that dump must be able to dump a ufs fs that restore can restore to a ufs fs, and that dump must be able to dump a ufs2 fs that restore can restore to a ufs2 fs. But to dump a ufs fs and restore it to a ufs2 fs is not the same thing, nor is it the 'normal' application for dump/restore. Maybe this is quite a valid thing to do; I'd like to see an 'official' statement to that effect -- I find your argument in relation to this situation unconvincing. Sorry about that. But you seem to be convinced by your investigation that the problem is elsewhere so at least tentitively I will accept that it is valid thing to do even though I dismiss your argument. Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
