On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 08:10:39AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 11/13/20 6:51 AM, Gao Xiang wrote: ... > > Thank you for looking into this - I think you now understand xfsdump & > xfsrestore better than anyone else on the planet. ;) > > One question - what happens if the wrong "root inode" is not a directory? > I think that it is possible from the old "get the first active inode" heuristic > to find any type of file and save it as the root inode. > > I think that your approach still works in this case, but wanted to double check > and see what you think. Yeah, good question. I also think it works too, but just in case let me do fault injection on a regular inode later (Donald's image is /var subdir...) Thanks, Gao Xiang > > Thanks, > -Eric >
