Re: Bug: xfsrestore -t insists on CWD being on a XFS filesystem

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 28, 2001, "Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> /usr/sbin/xfsrestore: ERROR: Current directory not XFS: /tmp/amanda

> I consider this being a bug: no actual restore is done, so CWD's
> filesystem doesn't matter.

I'd go even further: xfsrestore should be capable of restoring onto
non-XFS filesystems.  What should matter is the format of the backup
image, not the underlying representation of data on the filesystem to
which files are being restored.

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