That's it exactly. You mean I could use xfs_rtcp?
Best,
J.
On Dec 7, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:29:33AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> On 12/5/2012 9:01 PM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
>> BTW, if your goal in all of this is simply copying all the directories
>> and files from one disk to another disk, you could have used "cp -a" and
>> been done already. It takes longer to execute than xfsdump/xfsrestore,
>> but given you've been at this for many days now, "cp -a" would have
>> already completed--long ago.
>
> Unfortunately, using cp or rsync is not possible because the
> filesystem has a real-time device attached to it. It's basically a
> ~10GB data device and a ~500GB real-time device. I'd say it's from a
> DVR or something like that, and that Jeffrey is trying to put
> a bigger disk in the DVR....
>
> Hence there are various DVR forums that suggest xfsdump/xfsrestore
> is the best method for copying such filesystems to a larger disk.
> I'd guess that people haven't found xfs_rtcp, or maybe they saw the
> caveat in the man page(*) and didn't use it....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
> (*) CAVEATS
> Currently, realtime partitions are not supported under the
> Linux version of XFS, and use of a realtime partition WILL
> CAUSE CORRUPTION on the data partition. As such, this command
> is made available for curious DEVELOPERS ONLY at this
> point in time.
>
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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