Using xfsdump On Linux With IRIX Version 1 FS?

[Christian Kujau]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 at 12:22, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> I meant: What is the advantage of using the a loop-device (of the image) 
> instead of directly using the image?

Some tools don't like to act on flat files, i.e. mkfs.reiserfs won't 
create a filesystem on a file without -forcing it, dunno about all the 
xfsprogs though, or "hexedit", or....

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