Re: where is xfs_copy?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

Jonathan Dill wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is xfs_copy available anywhere for Linux?  The man page is in the
> xfsdump rpm, but I don't find the binary.  I haven't dug into the
> src.rpm or the tar.gz yet.  I would like to be able to use xfs_copy to
> clone or relocate XFS filesystems to different partitions.  I have been
> using xfsdump piped to xfsrestore, but at least on IRIX I thought I got
> better performance with xfs_copy.

Hm, the source is in CVS, but not built - the makefile says:

#LTCOMMAND = xfs_copy	# NEEDS FURTHER PORTING WORK

and the README says:

TODO LIST
---------
* complete the port of xfs_copy
  (needs pthreads & locking code)


so I guess it's not ready for prime-time... :)

-Eric


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