Subject: Re: restore dumps core on different filesystems
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chuck Cranor <chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/08/1996 21:12:32
> cd /some/nfs/filesystem
> restore ivfb /dev/nrst1 112
>
>...and I was saying "I don't think that was ever intended to work."
I don't see why that shouldn't work. While dump needs access to
the raw disk partition (e.g. /dev/rsd1c), I don't believe restore does.
Doesn't restore use normal filesystem system calls to do all its work?
Shouldn't they work over NFS?
chuck