xfsdump INTERRUPT issue

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 12/7/2012 4:16 AM, Dave Chinner 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....

Ah, yes.  I didn't catch the RT volume.

Incidentally, since the real-time feature has never been fully supported
under Linux, why are DVR manufacturers even using it?  Without GRIO and
the XBOW ASIC the real-time volume is pretty much useless isn't it?

-- 
Stan