On 26 Jun 2001, ThH wrote:
> I'm testing XFS on an alpha with RedHat Linux 7.0. I normaly backup this
> alpha with dump for ext2 fs. So I want to use xfsdump. It may work on
> x86 but on the alpha there are many problems with sizes like
> sizeof(time_t) != 4, so xfsdump stops its operation. The bug was on
> 1.0.5 an than on 1.0.9. What have I to do to use xfsdump.
> I want to use XFS for my file server, but without a chance to backup I
> won't.
Unfortunately we don't have the time nor access to hardware to do porting
or testing work for alpha. One of wonders of open source, of course, is
that it allows interested parties to do the work themselves. We'd be
happy to review and incorporate patches that have been submitted by the
open source community.
Note that you can use good ol' tar and cpio, etc to do your backups. You
wont be able to backup information stored in extended attributes (eg.
ACLs) but if this isn't a problem for you, then not having xfsdump
should be more an inconvenience than a showstopper.
Ivan
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