Using xfsdump On Linux With IRIX Version 1 FS?

[Sean Elble]

On 7/25/09 5:46 AM, "Christian Kujau" <lists at nerdbynature.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 at 09:26, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
>>>   # losetup -r /dev/loop0 /path/to/IRIXbackup
>>>   # hexedit /dev/loop0 ...or whatever tool you'll be using.
>> 
>> Which has what advantage over directly changing the image?
> 
> Sean mentioned the "thrashing of the old disk" and I figured I'd be
> worried not only by that but that the old disk might die anytime soon. So
> I wanted to present an alternative to do the search - I don't know too
> much about his setup, so it's up to him to follow this advice or not.
> 
>

I think (and hope, considering its age) that the disk is OK.  My concern was
more with the speed that hexedit could traverse the drive searching for a
string, as opposed to dd'ing the drive to disk, editing the image, and then
dd'ing the image back to disk.

Using the loopback driver is definitely a thought, but I don't know if the
kernel on my spare box supports it or not.  I'll definitely take it into
consideration, depending on how it goes, so thanks for the info.

>> Even with just 10MB/s it's less than 4 Minutes for 2GB.
>> In comparison it takes over 3 hours to copy a modern 1TB HDD @ 80MB/s.
> 
> ?? (what kind of comparison is that?)
> 
> C.

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