On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Thursday, May 02, 2013 21:08:21 Sven Gaerner wrote: > > You would like to run something like this: > > > > $ newfs_hammer -L DATA2 /dev/serno/ABCDEF > > $ mount /dev/serno/ABCDEF /mnt > > $ mkdir /mnt/pfs > > $ hammer mirror-copy /pfs/source /mnt/pfs/master > > > > When the copy operation has been finished, you have to upgrade the > > destination PFS to be a master PFS, otherwise you cannot read-write mount > > the filesystem. > > > > Can I copy the root filesystem this way? Or do I use cpdup and lose the > history?
I think this is not possible. You can create a backup PFS for the root filesystem this way. But the root filesystem is not a PFS. The root filesystem is the HAMMER filesystem, not a PFS inside. I guess cpdup is the only way to copy the root filesystem. Sven
