On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> > Under release 1.0.1, I noticed a problem with xfsdump/xfsrestore that
> > wasn't there in 1.0 (although it did fix an OOPS, and the earlier SUID
> > problem). Doing an xfsdump of / piped to a restore on another partition,
> > I noticed that the /dev directory didn't transfer correctly. The major
> > numbers on all the devices were set to 0.
> >
> > It seems that I must have read about this problem being fixed before, so
> > I'm guessing the CVS version of xfsdump doesn't have this problem?
>
> Yes, there is a problem here, I just replicated it locally on the current
> cvs kernel and xfsdump/restore packages. A mknod on its own creates the
> correct information, so this is either dump not getting the correct info
> out of the kernel, or an issue between dump and restore themselves.
I'll look into it.
Ivan
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