On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:31:40AM -0600, Bill Kendall wrote: > Just to be clear, the state information is used only for the life of > a series of restores. You restore your level 0 dump, then run restore > again on your level 1, and so on. After that the state information is not > used and would be deleted. > > Given how unlikely it is for someone to start a restore on one system > and continue it on another (incompatible) system, and since your suggested > change would ripple out into all the code that touches any of the on-disk > structures, I'd prefer to simply detect a change in the size of types. I > would think that recording/checking the size of a pointer would be > sufficient, assuming your main concern is type size differences between > 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Ok, still not nice, but no reason to revamp all of xfsdump due to this. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
