On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Aug 14, 11:50am, Andrew Ho wrote:
> > Subject: xfs_copy
> > The error meesages of /usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/cmd/xfs/copy/
> >
> > Makefile:35: /usr/include/make/commondefs: No such file or directory
> > Makefile:52: no file name for `include'
> > make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/include/make/commondefs'. Stop
> >
> > Thank you for your attention.
>
> yeah - that's an IRIX smake Makefile & hasn't been ported to
> Linux at all ... not sure why copy is even in the Linux tree.
> perhaps it should be removed until/if someone actually ports
> it to Linux. xfsdump/xfsrestore seem (to me) to provide a
> similar function to copy, so I'm not sure that porting it is
> all that useful anyway (Steve? Russell? - you guys know the
> history of this one better than I do).
(Under IRIX) xfs_copy will copy unmounted xfs filesystems, whereas
xfsdump/xfsrestore use mounted filesystems. The only real difference
between xfs_copy and dd, is that xfs_copy will generate a new filesystem
uuid for the copied filesystems.
Ivan
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