On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:14, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:10, Olaf FrDczyk wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 17:54, Seth Mos wrote:
> > > May I suggest the following procedure for copying disks and information...
> > Why it should be better?
> > Doing 'cat' I have perfect copy of disk.
> > You think that I will get lower latency with your scenario?
> > > partition the second disk similar to your first.
> > > Mount these partition under something like /mnt/new
> > > And the other partitions underneath that... eg.
> > > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/new
> > > mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt/new/usr
> > >
> > > After completing this procedure you can transfer the data.
> > >
> > > (cd /;tar -cf - .)|(cd /mnt/new;tar -xf -)
> >
> > And all my ACLs go to hell :)
> > BTW try to do it with NTFS partition :(
> >
> > > This will give you all files on the second disk. However you must
> > > reinstall
> > > lilo on this disk since it will not be in the same place anymore.
> > These disks are not used for booting, OS etc.
> >
> > > Not it should not be enough to make it that severe. I suspect the dma
> > > issue.
> > As I said earlier, they have DMA enabled.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> >
>
>
> Seth is suggesting copying the contents of the filesystem, not the
> complete device. What you really need is xfs_copy implemented on
> linux I think, failing that xfs_dump piped into xfs_restore which
> will keep acls.
xfs_copy might be working... give it a try.
>
> Steve
>
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