Re: Inode persistence generally - was: Re: persistent labelling on afs, jfs, xfs?

From: Russell Coker <russell_at_coker.com.au>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:32:06 +0100


On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:39, forrest whitcher wrote:
> A more prosaic concern:
>
> Can we depend on the log check & replay functions and the fs-specific
> backup/restore to maintain inode:file persistence?

Log check and reply merely guarantee the results that would be usual anyway (IE Inodes don't change etc), so they should be fine.

As for backup and restore, it'll work for dump/restore but not for tar/cpio. There is no dump for ReiserFS...

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